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Becoming Citizens in the Age of Online Social Networks: Youths' Civic Engagement in China and Japan

Becoming Citizens in the Age of Online Social Networks: Youths' Civic Engagement in China and Japan
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Author(s): Ping Yang (Millersville University, USA)and Mito Ogawa (Millersville University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 18
Source title: Research Anthology on Citizen Engagement and Activism for Social Change
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3706-3.ch039

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Abstract

New media studies have attracted increasing scholarly attention as communication technologies become integrated into our everyday lives. New media provide unique contexts to share, record, and extend civic life and motivate civic commitment in the digital era. This chapter addresses the intersection of new media, culture, and political communication by exploring youths' civic engagement in China and Japan through individual voluntarism, civic participation, and political activism. It interrogates the civic use of social network sites in the digital age so as to increase our understanding of intercultural online interactions. Through the case studies of China and Japan, this research adds to the knowledge of intercultural communication in the networked society, with its potential to promote more democratic forms of engagement between citizens and states in the contexts of new media.

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