Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, this book examines questions of youth citizenship and participation by exploring their meanings in policy, practice and youth experience. It examines young people’s participation in non-government and youth-led organisations, and asks what can be done to bridge the democratic disconnect.

Youth
political participation
citizenship
digital media
policy
Digital Media
government
organization
participation
pluralism
Policy
society
youth
childhood studies

• Front Matter
• Introduction: Young People, Participation and Digital Media
• Conceptualising Young Citizens
• Cultivating Good Citizens
• Civic Organisations in Context
• Youth Perspectives on Participation
• Mediated Participation
• Addressing the Democratic Disconnect
• Back Matter

University of Western Sydney, Australia
Philippa Collin

Book Title
Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society

Book Subtitle
Addressing the Democratic Disconnect

Authors
Philippa Collin

Series Title
Studies in Childhood and Youth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137348838

Hardcover ISBN
978-1-137-34882-1
Published: 13 January 2015

Softcover ISBN
978-1-349-46773-0
Due: 01 January 2015

eBook ISBN
978-1-137-34883-8
Published: 13 January 2015

Series ISSN
2731-6467

Series E-ISSN
2731-6475

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
VII, 196

Topics
Sociology of Culture, Youth Culture, Political Sociology, Political Science, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging