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Confident, Capable And World Changing: Teenagers And Digital Citizenship, Lelia Green
Confident, Capable And World Changing: Teenagers And Digital Citizenship, Lelia Green
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Around the world policymakers are exploring the kinds of skills and competencies that teenagers need to have to contribute to society as digital citizens. Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child framework, and informed by critical analysis of discourses around digital citizenship, this paper explores the competencies already demonstrated by many adolescents and addresses the priorities identified by policymakers. It compares the top-down adult policymakers’ blueprints for digital citizenship with the performances of citizenship by many young people, who mobilise digital resources to communicate with powerful others as a means of progressing their aims. Drawing upon …