Social Media for Civic Education

Social Media for Civic Education

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This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has long been in decline, many of these measures fail to take into account all of the ways that youth can interact with civic life. One of these understudied ways is through social media, including platforms like Twitter, where young people have the opportunity to encounter the news, engage with people in power, and bring attention to the needs in their community. Throughout this volume, Chapman explores how and why teachers can use social media to teach civics, as well as how it might meet the needs of students in ways other approaches do not.

Chapman, Amy L.

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93968

Springer Nature

2023

Dewi Puspitasari

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Watts, R. J., & Flanagan, C. (2007). Pushing the envelope on youth civic engagement: A developmental and liberation psychology perspective. Journal of Community Psychology, 35(6), 779–792. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20178

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English

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DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-10865-5

ISBN
9783031108655

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