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From online political campaigning to Internet social clubs, the American mass participation environment has become increasingly mediated by digital technologies or tools. From social membership in groups and clubs to political participation to influencing government action, information technologies have become popular for expressing ideas and build...
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... 6.1.1. Information literacy in a digital environment Respondents assessed their degree of digital literacy using a validated and reliable sub-questionnaire originally compiled by Riel (2012) ...
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Digital public sphere is immersed in the present conjuncture of accelerated transformation and probable rupture, which certainly will affect the way we exercise our citizenship in contemporary times. This social and political tsunami is partly based on the change of paradigm of Web 2.0 or Social Web to Web 3.0 or Semantic Web. To clarify such a process, this paper discusses some of the key issues and theoretical positions on public space, from seminal Habermas’s perspective to new problematics raised by the networked society. The author suggests the construction of a Sociological Ontology of Social and Semantic Web, based on a Semantic-Logical Sociology and Methodology. These procedures are applied through the analysis and hermeneutics of a Wikipedia page entitled ‘Web 2.0’, where sociological experimental tools are used, as Semantic-Logical fields, trees and networks, central and peripheral concepts, and trichotomies.
There has been active debate in recent years whether media literacy education can or even should nurture civic participation. Despite a growing number of theoretical and empirical studies, the question remains unanswered. This paper contributes to the debate with participatory action research conducted with vocational school students in the Czech Republic. Seventeen students aged 17–19 took part in the study over the course of three months. They received weekly interventions applying the citizenship model of media literacy and focusing on ‘create’, ‘reflect’, and ‘act’ competences. The research and educational intervention turned out to be a positive learning experience for students, which exceeded the originally expected outcome. The project found that the students’ immediate media literacy in these competences improved. However, the enhancement of their long-term civic participation remained questionable. This study argues for a student-centered, school-routines-breaking, and hands-on approach to media literacy education supporting civic participation of disadvantaged youth.
A esfera pública digital encontra-se imersa na actual conjuntura de transformação acelerada e provavelmente de ruptura, que influirá certamente no modo de exercer a cidadania na contemporaneidade. Este tsunami social e político funda-se, em parte, na passagem do paradigma da Web 2.0 ou Web Social para a Web 3.0 ou Web Semântica. Para esclarecer um tal processo, o presente artigo discute algumas das principais questões e posturas teóricas sobre o espaço público, desde o posicionamento seminal de Habermas até às novas problemáticas suscitadas pela sociedade em rede. O autor sugere a construção de uma Ontologia Sociológica da Web Social e Semântica, a partir das Sociologia e Metodologia Semântico-Lógicas. Estes procedimentos são aplicados através da análise e hermenêutica de uma página da Wikipédia intitulada ‘Web 2.0’, onde se utilizam instrumentos sociológicos experimentais como os campos, árvores e redes semântico-lógicas, conceitos centrais e periféricos, bem como tricotomias.
