Media, Margins and Civic Agency

Thorsen, Einar; Jackson, Daniel; Savigny, Heather; Alexander, Jenny

doi:10.1057/9781137512642

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“…This involves looking at data on how adolescents use informal spaces to express their thoughts and to participate civically in less traditional ways. Jackson, Alexander, Thorsen, and Savigny (2015) also argue for the importance of exploring how technology does or does not facilitate civic agency by understanding the challenges, opportunities, and "barriers to empowerment experienced by marginalized people; and the ongoing tension between the mainstream (be it mainstream media, culture or political institutions) and the margins" (p.11), which, in this case, are young people.…”

Section: Agency and Civic Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The internet as a global playground: young citizens and informal spaces of agency, a Portuguese case study

Fonseca

2019

Mind, Culture, and Activity

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The recent rapid expansion of digital technologies brought with it the promise that these technologies would bring citizens, and especially youth, closer to political decision-making processes. But studies on youth participation and technology suggest that this promise has failed to materialize. The present article looks at nontraditional and informal online forms of civic participation to better understand students' civic agency when using the Internet. Results from a countrywide survey of 11th-and 12th-grade students in Portugal suggest that their informal online civic participation (e.g., posting and sharing civically relevant items) is positively correlated with their formal civic participation offline (e.g., in community groups and school decision-making), perceived opportunities to participate offline, and formal online civic participation. In addition, students tend to react to and share civic content on online social networks more often than they perform more structured and formalized civic actions. The results suggest that the Internet is a space of youth civic agency and participation-a global playground-contrasting with formal institutional and formal online spaces, where youth lack a voice.

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Section: Agency and Civic Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%