Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation: An Overview of Key Findings from the CivicWeb Project

Banaji, Shakuntala; Buckingham, David

doi:10.1162/ijlm_a_00038

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“…for most producers in our sample, as for the young people in our focus groups (see Banaji and Buckingham 2010), the most important forms of civic motivation and serious political action are usually found offline. The internet is seen to serve various potential functions here: it might provide a spark that provokes people to action; it might serve as a conduit or a tool or a space for storing information and for communication; it might be primarily a promotional gimmick enabling ideas and issues to circulate, and campaigns and movements to organise and debate.…”

Section: Conclusion: Decentering Technologymentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Our wider research project involved several distinct but overlapping forms of investigation (see Banaji & Buckingham 2010;Banaji & Buckingham 2013). following a review of existing studies, we began by mapping the field through the selection and classification of approximately fifty civic/political websites and thirty youth-specific sites in each of the countries mentioned above, making a total of 560 sites.…”

Section: Methods: Research Design Sample and Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Producing the Internet: critical perspectives of social media

Schapals

2014

Journal of Media Practice

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• Media and Communication Research Findings in the Nordic Countries Nordicom publishes a Nordic journal, Nordicom information, and an English language journal, Nordicom review (refereed), as well as anthologies and other reports in both Nordic and English languages. Different research databases concerning, among other things, scientific literature and ongoing research are updated continuously and are available on the Internet. Nordicom has the character of a hub of Nordic cooperation in media research. Making Nordic research in the field of mass communication and media studies known to colleagues and others outside the region, and weaving and supporting networks of collaboration between the Nordic research communities and colleagues abroad are two prime facets of the Nordicom work. The documentation services are based on work performed in national documentation centres attached to the universities in Aarhus

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Section: Conclusion: Decentering Technologymentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Methods: Research Design Sample and Interviewsmentioning

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Producing the Internet: critical perspectives of social media

Schapals

2014

Journal of Media Practice

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“…Digital media have the potential to provide young people with a new way of engaging in civic life and to develop democratic citizenship. Many of those who are equipped with digital media are employing the internet to participate in political and social activities, such as online voting, volunteering, philanthropy, protesting, demonstrating, signing petitions, and boycotting products (Banaji and Buckingham, 2010;Montgomery, 2008;Kann et al, 2007;Bachen et al, 2008). Not all young people have access to digital technologies and historically there has been a digital divide which isolates many rural, poor, and technologically illiterate youth (Tapscott, 1998).…”

Section: Young People In the Age Of Social Network Sitesmentioning

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Active citizens, good citizens, and insouciant bystanders: The educational implications of Chinese university students' civic participation via social networking

Ke¹,

Starkey²

2014

London Review of Education

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This virtual ethnographic study explores how Chinese university students use social network sites (SNSs) to participate in civic activities. An ideal of active citizens is contrasted with good citizens (Crick) and insouciant bystanders. We find that students engage with the civic issues embedded in everyday life; their online civic preferences are often linked to their course of study; their participation may involve overcoming technological controls; and they have difficulty in translating their interest in life-politics (Giddens) from online to offline. We conclude that in China SNSs do open up space for civic participation by youth, but do not yet constitute an idealized public sphere (Habermas). Thus, there is a need to develop citizenship education that encourages young people to reflect on their online practice and develop critical online and offline civic participation.

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“…Recent studies indicate that youth are using online technologies to engage in citizenship activities such as discussing global problems, planning community service activities, seeking volunteer opportunities, writing blogs about a political issue, and forwarding political videos to their social networks (Cohen, Kahne, Bowyer, Middaugh, & Rogowski, 2012;Sunal, 2008;Van Hamel, 2011). Although a growing body of research points to ways that non-profit organizations and individual schools and teachers are using digital technologies for civics and citizenship learning (Banaji & Buckingham, 2010;Bennet, 2008;Bers, 2008;Merryfield, 2007;Rheingold, 2008), integration of technology and global citizenship is not yet common practice in most schools (VanFossen & Berson, 2008).…”

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Digital Storytelling for Transformative Global Citizenship Education

Truong-White¹,

McLean²

2015

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation

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This article explores how digital storytelling offers the potential to support transformative global citizenship education (TGCE) through a case study of the Bridges to Understanding program that connected middle and high school students globally using digital storytelling. Drawing on a TGCE framework, this research project probed the curriculum and digital stories using a multimodal critical discourse analysis. The findings of this study showed that digital storytelling, as integrated into the curriculum, enhanced student engagement with non-mainstream perspectives and self-reflection. However, the core elements of discussing controversial issues, analyzing systemic causes/impacts of global problems, and determining collective action responses required critical pedagogical practices beyond those embedded within the digital storytelling curriculum.

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Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation: An Overview of Key Findings from the CivicWeb Project

Cited by 55 publications

References 19 publications

Producing the Internet: critical perspectives of social media

Producing the Internet: critical perspectives of social media

Active citizens, good citizens, and insouciant bystanders: The educational implications of Chinese university students' civic participation via social networking

Digital Storytelling for Transformative Global Citizenship Education

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