Young Citizens in the Digital Age (eBook, ePUB)

Political Engagement, Young People and New Media
Redaktion: Loader, Brian D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores alternative approaches for engaging and understanding young people's political activity and looks at the adoption of information and ICTs as a means to facilitate the active engagement of young people in democratic societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134131563
• Artikelnr.: 38263420

Autorenporträt

Brian D. Loader is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the new Social Informatics Research Unit at the University of York, UK. His academic interests are focused around the emergence of new information and communications technologies, the social, political and economic factors shaping their development and diffusion, and their implications for social, economic, governmental and cultural change.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Usage, Usability and Design 2. How Democracies have
Disengaged from Young People 3. Contrasting Producer and Recipient Views of
Youth Participation Websites 4. Logged On and Engaged?: The Experience of
Italian Young People 5. Rethinking Online Youth Civic Engagement:
Reflections on Web Content Analysis 6. Logged On and Disaffected: A Causal
Link? Part 2: Innovation in Action 7. Youth Engagement Sites: Appealing to
Young Voters in the US 8. Youth Internet Use during the Last UK Elections
9. Young Activists, Political Horizons, and the Internet: Adapting the Net
to One's Purposes 10. Australian Young People's Participatory Practices and
Internet Use Part 3: Citizenship Education through ICTs 11. ICT and
Citizenship in Northern Ireland: A Critique of Experience since the 1998
Good Friday Agreement 12. The Place of Online Citizenship Education 13. P2P
Politics: Young People and Policy Deliberation Online 14. Postscript:
Towards a New Research Agenda