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Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic
disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of
young people is stable and increasingly expressed through
non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics. This book makes
a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the
"decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding
political participation of the youth. It argues that we need to
move beyond this framework and develop a renewed reflection on the
meaning of "civic and political engagement". It asks crucial
questions such as: How can the young be educated into assuming
civic and political responsibility? Why and how do young people
engage in social and political action? How do the principal
mediating institutions (education, media and the family) contribute
to new or different forms of youth civic engagement? This text
contains contributions from acknowledged specialists such as
Constance Flanagan, Mark Elchardus, Marc Hooghe and Bert
Klandermans and will be of key interest to students and scholars of
youth and young citizens, civic & political involvement,
European politics, youth studies, sociology, political
participation and electoral behaviour.
Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic
disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of
young people is stable and increasingly expressed through
non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics. This book makes
a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the
"decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding
political participation of the youth. It argues that we need to
move beyond this framework and develop a renewed reflection on the
meaning of "civic and political engagement". It asks crucial
questions such as: How can the young be educated into assuming
civic and political responsibility? Why and how do young people
engage in social and political action? How do the principal
mediating institutions (education, media and the family) contribute
to new or different forms of youth civic engagement? This text
contains contributions from acknowledged specialists such as
Constance Flanagan, Mark Elchardus, Marc Hooghe and Bert
Klandermans and will be of key interest to students and scholars of
youth and young citizens, civic & political involvement,
European politics, youth studies, sociology, political
participation and electoral behaviour.
The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public
opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate.
Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and
journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He
described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people
come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered
bourgeoisie into an effective political agent - the public
intellectual. With communication networks being diversified and
expanded over time, the worldwide web has put pressure on
traditional public spheres. These new informal and horizontal
networks shaped by the internet create new contexts in which an
anonymous and dispersed public may gather in political
e-communities to reflect critically on societal issues. These
de-centered modes of communication and influence-seeking change the
role of the (traditional) public intellectual and - at first sight
- seem to make their contributions less influential. What
processes, therefore, influence changes within public spheres and
how can intellectuals assert authority within them? Should we speak
of different types of intellectuals, according to the different
modes of public intellectual engagement? This ground-breaking
volume gives a multi-disciplinary account of the way in which
public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in
the public sphere in the past, and how they try to voice public
concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public
spheres today.
The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public
opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate.
Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and
journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He
described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people
come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered
bourgeoisie into an effective political agent - the public
intellectual. With communication networks being diversified and
expanded over time, the worldwide web has put pressure on
traditional public spheres. These new informal and horizontal
networks shaped by the internet create new contexts in which an
anonymous and dispersed public may gather in political
e-communities to reflect critically on societal issues. These
de-centered modes of communication and influence-seeking change the
role of the (traditional) public intellectual and - at first sight
- seem to make their contributions less influential. What
processes, therefore, influence changes within public spheres and
how can intellectuals assert authority within them? Should we speak
of different types of intellectuals, according to the different
modes of public intellectual engagement? This ground-breaking
volume gives a multi-disciplinary account of the way in which
public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in
the public sphere in the past, and how they try to voice public
concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public
spheres today.
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