For example, they may be

Following this de!nitional clari!cation, we delineate the speci!c set of practices that constitute a clear subset of online political activity, and which we are designating “participatory politics.”

Foreducators and designers, the framework points to ways in which we can help young peoplelearn connected civicsno matter where they start—be it peer culture, interest and affinity,or civic opportunity—by cultivating experiences that connect these spheres of activity

“Transitions are consequential when they are consciouslyreflected on, often struggled with, and the eventual outcome changes one’s sense ofself and social positioning

Nerdfighters are a community of mil-lions that has grown up around video blogging brothers John and Hank Green and definesitself as working together to “decrease world suck.”

As pictured inFigure 1, “Connected civics” is a way to describe the learning that takesplace at the intersection of three realms of activity: young people’s agency within peercultures and public spheres; their deeply felt identities, interests and affinities; and civicengagement and opportunity.

3. by developingcross-cutting infrastructure, young peopleoften working in collabora-tion with adultsinstitutionalize their efforts in ways that make a loosely affiliated net-work into something that is socially organized, self-sustaining, and recognized as such bythose outside the original interest-driven community

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more likely to seek online sources of political information, to give money to a charity, to beinterested in politics, to protest or demonstrate, and say that they had persuaded someone to vote in a particular way

This supports the idea that as youth have opportunities to learn how to engage in online, they become more likely to do so

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