The Scratch online community addresses children’s civic engagement. Children and youth are provided a space to program, share, and discuss interactive media projects. A project by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, members have shared over 16.3 million projects and 87.4 million project comments.
Alli Magidsohn, creative strategist, interviews Ray Boyle, co-founder of Our City, a start-up non-profit based in Oakland, California that works with public art and design to transform civic engagement and empower citizens to improve their communities.
Erica Hodgin’s Educating Youth for Online Civic and Political Dialogue: A Conceptual Framework for the Digital Age examines digital affordances, challenges, and learning opportunities for youth participation in civic dialogue.
Alun Probert, Head of GovCom, weighs up civic engagement in the digital age.
S. Mark Pancer, professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada presents a summary of his book, The Psychology of Citizenship and Civic Engagement.
The language of “community engagement” is tricky, and can be a minefield for the uninitiated. In Australia, “community engagement” has come to dominate the lexicon. In other parts of the world other phrases hold sway. A couple of weeks back, during an interview with a community engagement practitioner, I asked what “engagement” meant to him, […]
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