Young 'netizens' creating public citizenship in cyberspace

Young 'netizens' creating public citizenship in cyberspace

• Robertson, Margaret La Trobe University

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 18(4), 287-293, 2009

Routledge

2009

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GF Humanities & Arts

Citizenship Decision Making Interpersonal Relationship Social Networks Values Children Cross Cultural Studies Australia Finland Hong Kong United Kingdom Social Networking Globalised Space Future Citizens

• Hong Kong
• Finland
• Great Britain
• Australia

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Collaborating with universities in Hong Kong, Finland, the United Kingdom and Australia the research project outlined in this paper takes up one of the key initial findings related to the importance of children's online spaces away from school. The project brings together complementary strengths from each partner nation to assist our mutual need to understand the worlds of our young "netizens" - the new public citizens of cyberspace. Differing in social and cultural context, each setting is recognised as a strong contributor to understanding the competencies of young people's digital expertise. We work from the shared view that the arrival of Web 2.0 and 3.0 social networking tools is educationally challenging and demands futuristic thinking for sustainable education and social connectivity globally. Our research aim is to use a common research design to discover how young people are behaving in the new online spaces; what guides their decision-making; and what, if any, common values appear to emerge when results between countries are compared. Locally derived knowledge gained from samples of 12-year-olds will be subjected to cross-cultural comparisons and validation. In doing so, we make some assumptions about the homogenising process that shared global networks may be fostering. Bringing together these contributions will strengthen the decision-making process and provide new knowledge about meaning making, agency and citizenship for the twenty-first-century e-democracy. This paper reports on the conceptual process underlying the research and the research design.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 10382046

• 10.1080/10382040903251158

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/da265548

2011-01-21