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Supporting Societal Participation of Young People by Social Media

出版	SSRN, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cSzfzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Young people tend to adopt a skeptical attitude towards traditional and mainstream forms of (political) participation, which is still dominated by elections and party politics. However, a majority of adolescents share the opinion that it is important to participate in political processes. This indicates an existing disposition of young people to participate in societal and political matters, but measures for implementing a participative culture of young people are lacking to a great extent. A participative culture is characterized by teamwork, shared power and decision-making, and openness to ideas from outside. It surprises that young people show remarkable deficits regarding their competencies and capabilities to use new media (Internet, Web 2.0, Social Media) for participatory actions. The capabilities of young people to use new media for societal/political participation have to be enhanced as well as new forms/offers of ICTs or media have to be developed and designed especially for supporting a participative culture of young people. As an example, this paper presents Polipedia.at as a tool for strengthening political participation among Austrian pupils and adolescents by establishing a participative online-textbook for political education in schools.