Social Media for Civic Education : : Engaging Youth for Democracy / / by Amy L. Chapman.

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 t...

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Superior document:Palgrave Studies in Educational Media,
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Language:English
Series:Palgrave Studies in Educational Media,
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIX, 161 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Reclaiming Civic Education
  • Chapter 2 Is Twitter for the Birds? The Young and The Restless Don’t Think So
  • Chapter 3 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: How Social Media Operates in the Civic Sphere
  • Chapter 4 The Study: Teachers’ Use of Twitter for Civic Education
  • Chapter 5 #CivicEd: Teachers’ Stories of Connection, Civics, and Social Media
  • Chapter 6 (Digital) Citizenship: Dissenting from Indifference
  • Chapter 7 Nurturing a Capacity That May Well Be Limitless: Supporting Student Worth as a Matter of Civic Urgency
  • Chapter 8 With a Little Help from Friends: Teaching About, With, and Through Social Media
  • Chapter 9 The Margins Don’t Get Erased by Simply Insisting that the Powers That Be Erase Them: Social Media as a Disrupter
  • Chapter 10 Conclusions: My Liberation is Bound Up with Yours.