Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in Digital Culture (original) (raw)

Abstract

In 2014, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to its youngest winner, Malala Yousafzai. In this context, the work of Paul Mihailidis helps us understand how young people are changing their environments and societies, empowered by technology and digital media. The emerging citizen concept proposed here gives us a new perspective about the positive use of the tools provided by digital culture and a commitment to civic participation. In this new communication context and social landscape, media literacy is the element of articulation. Any network user is potentially a producer of information: what varies is the degree of participation, through the level of media literacy achieved.

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