Civic Life Online - Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-262-52482-7
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning

The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationship of online action and real-world politics. The contributors discuss not only how online networks might inspire conventional political participation but also how creative uses of digital technologies are expanding the boundaries of politics and public issues. Do protests in gaming communities, music file sharing, or fan petitioning of music companies constitute political behavior? Do the communication skills and patterns of action developed in these online activities transfer to such offline realms as voting and public protests? Civic Life Online describes the many forms of civic life online that could predict a generation's political behavior.Contributors
Marina Umaschi Bers, Stephen Coleman, Jennifer Earl, Kirsten Foot, Peter Levine, Kathryn C. Montgomery, Kate Raynes-Goldie, Howard Rheingold, Allen Schussman, Luke Walker, Michael Xenos

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, W. Lance

Weitere Mitwirkende

Montgomery, Kathryn C.

Xenos, Michael

Foot, Kirsten A.

Earl, Jennifer

Schussman, Alan

Rheingold, Howard

Levine, Peter

Bers, Marina Umaschi

Raynes-Goldie, Kate

Walker, Luke

Coleman, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Bennett, W. Lance
W. Lance Bennett is Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Coleman, Stephen
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication in the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds.

Foot, Kirsten A.
Kirsten A. Foot is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, and lead author of Web Campaigning (MIT Press).

Montgomery, Kathryn C.
Kathryn C. Montgomery is Professor in the Public Communication Division, School of Communication, at American University, where she directs the Project on Youth, Media, and Democracy. As founder of the Center for Media Education, she led a coalition of advocacy groups in a series of successful media policy campaigns on behalf of children and youth. She is the author of Target: Prime Time: Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television.

Earl, Jennifer
Jennifer Earl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.

Rheingold, Howard
Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author of Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (both published by the MIT Press), and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

W. Lance Bennett is Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.