Abstract
This chapter reviews the canon of literature that informs the research, starting with works that highlight the digitally mediated nature of society, particularly civic applications of technology. The author then turns to conceptualizations of young people from the psychological perspective of Erikson (1968) and sociological perspectives of Goffman (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, NY, 1959; The Presentation of Self to Others. In J. G. Manis & B. N. Meltzer (Eds.), Symbolic Interaction: A Reader in Social Psychology, 3rd ed. Allyn and Bacon, London, pp. 234–244, 1978) and Schlenker (Self-identification: Toward an Integration of the Private and Public Self. In Public Self and Private Self, Springer, New York, pp. 21–62, 1986; Self-Presentation. In M. R. Leary & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of Self and Identity, 2nd ed. Guilford Press, New York, pp. 542–570, 2012). These perspectives inform the theory of presentation of the self, the theory of identity that guides this study of young people in today’s world. The author then introduces the concept of civic identity, highlighting landmark research by Lister, Smith, Middleton, and Cox (Citizenship Studies, 7, 235–253, 2003; Young People Talking About Citizenship in Britain. In N. Kabeer (Ed.), Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions, Zed Books, New York, pp. 114–131, 2005). She then discusses the ways in which civic engagement activities have become digitally mediated in contemporary society, which marks a time at which focus has turned to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The chapter demonstrates the ways in which the digital era and the civic sphere intersect for young people aged 14 through to 17, positioning the book within the wider literature in these disciplines.
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Selfie is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media” (Oxford University Press, 2018).
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The vast majority of research on youth civic engagement to date has focused on people who have reached adulthood, between 18 and 25 years of age. Similarly, many studies investigating social media use also focus on the 18–25 or 18–29 year old population because they are the heaviest users of social media (Yamamoto, Kushin, & Dalisay, 2015).
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Google search conducted on 31 May 2019. Note that the number of search results has doubled from 84,800,000 results in a search of the same term conducted one year prior, on 30 May 2018.
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Viola, J.K. (2020). Where Technology, Youth, and Civics Meet: A Springboard for Understanding Civic Identity. In: Young People's Civic Identity in the Digital Age. Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37405-1_2
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