‘There’s always opportunities to learn’: Immigrant-origin youth’s use and understanding of social media for civic education in the year 2020
Elena Maker Castro,
Sara Wilf,
Jaime Garcia Guzman
et al.
Abstract:Immigrant-origin youth are a large and growing segment of the US population. As immigrant-origin youth engage in critical civic issues within and beyond the United States, they may use social media to educate themselves and their communities while drawing upon a transnational context and experiences resisting xenophobic rhetoric and policy. Using a multi-method qualitative approach, we conducted thematic analysis to explore over 2200 Twitter (now known as ‘X’) posts and 11 interviews from a racially/ethnically… Show more
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