Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New Media

ISBN-13: 9780415409131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 218 str.

Loader, Brian D.

Opis

A social anxiety currently pervades the political classes of the western world, arising from the perception that young people have become disaffected with liberal democratic politics. Voter turnout among 18-25 year olds continues to be lower than other age groups and they are less likely to join political parties. This is not, however, proof that young people are not interested in politics per se but is evidence that they are becoming politically socialized within a new media environment. This shift poses a significant challenge to politicians who increasingly have to respond to a technologically mediated lifestyle politics that celebrates lifestyle diversity, personal disclosure and celebrity. 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. Young Citizens in a Digital Age presents new research and the first comprehensive analysis of ICTs, citizenship and young people from an international group of leading scholars. It is an important book for students and researchers of citizenship and ICTs within the fields of sociology, politics, social policy and communication studies among others."

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.