Do digital social networks foster civilian participation among Millennials? Kitchenware revolution and 15M Cases
Nowadays “education for citizenship” is presented as a solution for many of the political, social, and co-existential issues in Western democratic societies in order to tackle dysfunctionalities produced by globalization, populism, migration, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and vi...
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ftunivcardiff:oai:https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk:138836 2023-05-15T16:51:27+02:00 Do digital social networks foster civilian participation among Millennials? Kitchenware revolution and 15M Cases Calzada, Igor 2017 application/pdf https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138836/ https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2017.3.4 https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138836/1/calzada_gjcpi_2017_3.pdf en eng https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138836/1/calzada_gjcpi_2017_3.pdf Calzada, Igor https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A2604540A.html orcid:0000-0002-4269-830X orcid:0000-0002-4269-830X 2017. Do digital social networks foster civilian participation among Millennials? Kitchenware revolution and 15M Cases. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation 2017 (3) , pp. 1-26. 10.12893/gjcpi.2017.3.4 https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2017.3.4 file https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/138836/1/calzada_gjcpi_2017_3.pdf doi:10.12893/gjcpi.2017.3.4 cc_by_nc_nd CC-BY-NC-ND Article PeerReviewed 2017 ftunivcardiff https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2017.3.4 2022-11-10T23:39:08Z Nowadays “education for citizenship” is presented as a solution for many of the political, social, and co-existential issues in Western democratic societies in order to tackle dysfunctionalities produced by globalization, populism, migration, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and violence. At the same time, particularly among “millennials” or “digital natives”, lack of civil commitment and apathy toward politics as a whole contrasts with their intensive usage of digital social networks, or social media. By examining in-depth the scientific literature about the potential conceptual correlations between the use of “digital social networks” and civilian participation among “millennials”, this paper explores two widely studied paradigmatic events of democratic regeneration: the “Kitchenware Revolution” in Iceland after the financial collapse on 6 October 2008, and the “15M Movement” in Spain after 15 May 2011. Despite the substantial relevance that digital social networks played in both cases, this paper wonders to what extent digital social networks foster millennials’ civilian participation, when, paradoxically, they seem to be the population target who contests the status quo but who is not actually being represented democratically in the formal political system. The author concludes that digital social networks could initially foster civilian participation, but they should be seen as a new artefact that, itself, does not necessarily lead to a better political representation of millennials. As well, this paper argues against the widespread assumption regarding the correlation between socioeconomic and educational status and Internet usage factors of millennials when it comes to civilian participation, particularly in extreme political mobilisation events such as the Kitchenware Revolution and 15M. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Cardiff University: ORCA (Online Research @ Cardiff) |
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Nowadays “education for citizenship” is presented as a solution for many of the political, social, and co-existential issues in Western democratic societies in order to tackle dysfunctionalities produced by globalization, populism, migration, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and violence. At the same time, particularly among “millennials” or “digital natives”, lack of civil commitment and apathy toward politics as a whole contrasts with their intensive usage of digital social networks, or social media. By examining in-depth the scientific literature about the potential conceptual correlations between the use of “digital social networks” and civilian participation among “millennials”, this paper explores two widely studied paradigmatic events of democratic regeneration: the “Kitchenware Revolution” in Iceland after the financial collapse on 6 October 2008, and the “15M Movement” in Spain after 15 May 2011. Despite the substantial relevance that digital social networks played in both cases, this paper wonders to what extent digital social networks foster millennials’ civilian participation, when, paradoxically, they seem to be the population target who contests the status quo but who is not actually being represented democratically in the formal political system. The author concludes that digital social networks could initially foster civilian participation, but they should be seen as a new artefact that, itself, does not necessarily lead to a better political representation of millennials. As well, this paper argues against the widespread assumption regarding the correlation between socioeconomic and educational status and Internet usage factors of millennials when it comes to civilian participation, particularly in extreme political mobilisation events such as the Kitchenware Revolution and 15M. |
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Do digital social networks foster civilian participation among Millennials? Kitchenware revolution and 15M Cases |
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