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Digital participation and digital divides in a former socialist country
Book Title
Young people's participation: Revisiting youth and inequalities in Europe
Year (definitive publication)
2021
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the issue of youth digital participation. Social media in particular is thought to be able to open up new means of being political, albeit with strong criticism of participation via this means also noted. The chapter focuses on this theme of digital participation in Estonia, a country labelled as the ‘first digital nation’, that also has the legacy of being a former socialist country with limited levels of civic engagement and variable levels of participation between different groups of young people. The chapter hence analyses how young people politically engage through the internet, and how differences persist between those who use the internet for politics and those who do not. Empirical evidence is taken from a large-scale European project, MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement), which gathered data from two contrasting sites within Estonia, thus enabling us to make contrasts between different youth digital participation experiences.
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Keywords
Young people,Digital political participation,Inequality in digital participation,Trust in authorities
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Sociology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| UIDB/03126/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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