This study examined the construct of community and its development in online spaces through a qualitative analysis of middle school students’ participation in a private social network. Drawing on notions of community inspired by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, we found that students, despite not knowing one another previously, were willing both to encounter and come to […]
Learning Lives Connected: Digital Youth across School and Community Spaces
Whereas most studies of learning explore intra-institutional experiences, our interest is to track individual learning trajectories across domains. Research on young people’s use of different media outside schools shows how practices of using digital media are different from practices in schools in both form and content. The major challenge today, however, is to find ways […]
Young People and Social Networks: Motivations and Preferred Uses
This article presents the results of a study on the use of social networks among young Andalusians. The main objectives are to know the uses of social networks, their frequency and the motives behind their use. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The sample includes 1487 adolescents in Andalusia. The results show that […]
New Media as a Tool for Civic Learning
Service-Learning, a popular approach to citizenship education in the US, provides youth with opportunities to define and address public needs while reflecting on the knowledge, skills, and relationships needed to do such work. This approach assumes education for democratic citizenship must help youth understand themselves as part of a larger community, increase their sense of […]
Interactive Youth: New Citizenship between Social Networks and School Settings
Interactive Youth: New Citizenship between Social Networks and School Settings
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Why I’m quitting Facebook
I used to be able to justify using Facebook as a cost of doing business. As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it […]
The Shoah Foundation on Media Literacy and the Importance of Librarians
In relation to Lincoln, it’s neat when a major motion picture can spur greater understanding of those periods in history that we want K-12 students to know about anyway… but it’s also distressing when that movie becomes the end point, not the beginning, of learning. This occurs when students don’t have opportunities to follow up […]
“A Journey to Media Literacy”
EAVI’s video clip “A Journey to Media Literacy” is a 7-minute cartoon designed to explain, in a fun and simple way, what Media Literacy is all about, and why it is essential in order to live freely and participate fully in society. It was born thanks to a suggestion by Paolo’s 3 kids, who being […]
Critical Insights in European Media Literacy Research and Policy
This special issue has resulted from the work of the Task Force on “Media Literacy” of the COST Action, “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies,” IS0906, http://www.cost.eu. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, enabling the coordination of nationally funded research at the European level. The Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” (2010-2014) […]
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