reshaping the manner in which young people participate in public life?
Well, simply put, they are. When else in history would this have been possible for a farm boy. Seriously, though, young people have public personas today like they never have before.
How can policy makers, educators and software designer promote frequent, equitable and meaningful political engagement among youth through the use of digital media?
Two words: open annotation.
the prospect that new media can become a bridge to young people's involvement with politics and other democratic institutions.
Quote this somewhere...
how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.
Yup!
ASNE
American Society of News Editors=possible partner/funder
news literacy curriculum
I like this idea a lot. Annotation seems as though it could play a major role here.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
Funders of this theme.
active, informed, responsible, and effective citizens.
Note adjectives here:
young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are far less likely to be informed and to vote.
Emphasis on peer to peer learning, open, free software...
civic education
...and civic appreciation and civic enthusiasm...
journalism's role in an evolving information landscape.
This is where hypothes.is becomes part of the picture...
Indeed no one may rely on the honesty of his life as a guarantee that he will be able to live securely in Athens; for the men who have chosen to neglect what is their own and to plot against what belongs to others do not keep their hands off citizens who live soberly and bring before you only those who do evil; on the contrary, they advertise their powers in their attacks upon men who are entirely innocent, and so get more money from those who are clearly guilty.24
This might seem very far from what we'd consider as civic engagement, but is it?