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Can media literacy education increase digital engagement inpolitics?
- Author
- Joseph Kahne and Benjamin Bowyer
- Year
- 2019
- Publisher
- LEARNING, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
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- Abstract
- Online environments are now central to political life, especially for youngpeople. They are prominent contexts for activities that include: fundraising,political debate, sharing political perspectives, mobilizing individuals andgroups to act, and applying pressure to governments, corporations, andnonprofits. Much of this online politically focused activity occurs within abroader media ecology that can be characterized as a participatoryculture (Jenkins, H., R. Purushotma, K. Clinton, M. Weigel, andA. J. Robison. [2009]. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture:Media Education for the 21st Century. Occasional Paper on Digital Mediaand Learning. Chicago: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation).Many have argued that media literacy efforts are needed for youth tofully leverage these digital opportunities, but rigorous studies of sucheducational efforts are just beginning to emerge. Drawing on an originalpanel survey, this paper examines whether efforts to promote digitalengagement literacies increase youth online engagement in politics. Wefind that they do. Educators’ efforts to foster digital engagement literacies increase youth engagement in participatory politics and inapplying targeted political pressure to government, corporations, and nonprofits.
- Keywords
- Media Literacy, Civic Engagement
- Tags
- Media representation
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B2: Digital Civic Engagement
- Has Part
- C03-U07: Participatory Cultures and Civic Media
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review
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