Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New Media
Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New Media
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数字时代的年轻公民：政治参与、年轻人和新媒体
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2008
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Tiago Lapa da Silva
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Tiago Lapa da Silva
这本书讨论了“年轻人对自由民主政治不满的看法”以及新媒体在影响他们的公民和政治参与方面的潜在作用。该书的读者可能包括对公民身份与信息和通信技术之间的相互关系感兴趣的学者以及参与政治沟通进程的人员。在20世纪90年代信息时代的理论之后，这本书对新媒体在年轻人政治参与中的影响提供了中肯和及时的实证评估。这些最近的研究提供了重新评估以前的理论陈述的机会，揭开了信息社会先驱作者的未发现的乐观或悲观。在介绍部分，加载器向我们介绍了理论工具，以评估书中提出的各种研究。这些工具基本上有两个视角：悲观不满的公民视角和文化位移视角。第一种观点与哈贝马斯和波兹曼关于大众传媒文化及其对公共领域和政治参与的负面影响的批评相呼应。反过来，文化流离失所的观点指出了传统政治与年轻人的价值观和愿望之间的不匹配。这项研究不仅以英国为基地，还在包括美国、爱尔兰、意大利、瑞典和澳大利亚在内的其他国家进行，这增强了一些研究结果的相关性。例如，Xenos和班尼特指出，年轻人投票率的下降在西方社会并不是致命的，因为在美国，2004年年轻人的选举参与率有所上升。尽管如此，作者对将这种复苏归因于最近美国青年在线政治基础设施的发展持怀疑态度。各项研究相互关联，提出了一些反复出现的主题和结论。人们似乎普遍认为，年轻人的政治参与受到离线人口因素的重大影响。然而，大多数作者拒绝将互联网视为仅仅是对离线世界的强化。卡伦达和莫斯卡等作者提出了一些乐观的看法，
The book discusses ‘the perception that younger people have become disaffected with liberal democratic politics’ and the potential role of new media in influencing their civic and political engagement. The audience of the book might include academics with an interest in the interrelationship between citizenship and ICTs and agents engaged in the process of political communication. After the theories of the information age in the 1990s, this book provides pertinent and timely empirical assessments of the impact of new media in the political engagement of young people. These recent studies give the opportunity to re-evaluate previous theoretical statements, demystifying the unfound optimism or pessimism of the pioneering authors of the information society. In the introductory section, Loader presents us with the theoretical tools to evaluate the various studies presented in the book. Those tools are basically of two perspectives: the pessimistic disaffected citizen perspective and the cultural displacement perspective. The first perspective resonates the critiques of Habermas and Postman about mass media culture and its negative impact on the public sphere and political engagement. In turn, the cultural displacement perspective points out the mismatch between traditional politics and the values and aspirations of young people. The research is not only based in the United Kingdom, but also in other countries including the United States, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Australia, which enhances the relevance of some findings. For example, Xenos and Bennett point out that the decrease in the turnout rate of young people is not a fatality in Western Societies since in the United States there was an increase in youth electoral participation in 2004. Nevertheless, the authors are very skeptical in attributing that recovery to the recent development of an online political infrastructure for American youth. The various studies are well interrelated and present some recurrent themes and conclusions. It seems to be a general agreement that political engagement by young people is significantly influenced by offline demographic factors. However, most of the authors resist seeing the Internet as merely a reinforcement of the offline world. Authors such as Calenda and Mosca present some optimistic