This collection, comprising contributions from a number of leading international scholars in this field, examines such themes as the possible effects of social media use upon patterns of political socialization; the potential of social media to ameliorate young people’s political inequality; the role of social media communications for enhancing the civic education curriculum; and evidence for social media manifesting new forms of political engagement and participation by young citizens. These issues are considered from a number of theoretical and methodological approaches but all attempt to move beyond simplistic notions of young people as an undifferentiated category of ‘the internet generation’.
This collection, comprising contributions from a number of leading international scholars in this field, examines such themes as the possible effects of social media use upon patterns of political socialization; the potential of social media to ameliorate young people’s political inequality; the role of social media communications for enhancing the civic education curriculum; and evidence for social media manifesting new forms of political engagement and participation by young citizens. These issues are considered from a number of theoretical and methodological approaches but all attempt to move beyond simplistic notions of young people as an undifferentiated category of ‘the internet generation’.
The Networked Young Citizen: Social Media, Political Participation and Civic Engagement
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781138781146 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 07/14/2015 |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 228 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |