Youth empowerment through social networks. Creating participative digital citizenship

Beyond Monetization: Creating Value through Online Social Networks

Social networking sites are typically monetized via side payments, buy-clubs and affiliate programs, access controls, aggregation of content and integrated mobile platforms. However, there are other often untapped ways to create value through social networks, especially those related to enhanced interaction with customers, and knowledge creation and dissemination within organizations. In this a...

Participative Public Policy Making Through Multiple Social Media Platforms Utilization

This paper describes the research concerning the systematic, intensive and centralized web 2.0 social media exploitation by government agencies for widening and enhancing participative public policy making, which is conducted as part of the research project PADGETS (‘Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media’) partially funded by the European Commission. The proposed ap...

Book Review: The Digital Youth Network: cultivating digital media citizenship in urban communities

Youth, Participation, Leisure and Citizenship

The purpose with this article is to describe, explore, and discuss texts that ten Swedish local councils present on their homepages from the perspective of leisure, influence and citizenship for youths. Content analysis is used as a method in order to understand the content and structure of texts such as political aims, strategical plans and budgets. The result of the empirical study shows that...

Patterns of Inclusion: Fostering Digital Citizenship through Hybrid Education

Reconsidering the concept of digital citizenship and the essential component of education the authors propose that the concept of Hybrid Education may serve both as a guideline for the utilization of digital technologies in education and as a methodology for fostering new forms of participation, inclusion and engagement in society. Following T.H. Marshall’s conception of citizenship the authors...