Exploring the Role of Digital and Socio-civic Skills for Promoting Youth Participation and Digital Citizenship
Mark Peart
,
Sixto Cubo-Delgado
,
Prudencia Gutiérrez-Esteban
The emergence of digital technologies and a more global and digital society has brought about the need to develop and educate in Digital Citizenship, .
- Pub. date: April 15, 2022
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The emergence of digital technologies and a more global and digital society has brought about the need to develop and educate in Digital Citizenship, as well as to study how youth are taught to participate and learn citizenship in a digital age. This paper aims to explore the role of digital and socio-civic skills development, as facilitators for youth participation and analyses the relationship between sociodemographic variables (sex, age, educational level, and political ideology) with the participatory profile of participants. This is a study with a quantitative methodology, where, based on non-probabilistic convenience sampling, 534 young people between 16 and 35 years old from Spain, completed an online questionnaire regarding the development of digital and socio-civic skills. The results indicate how a participant’s participatory profile is related to other variables. In addition, significant differences are observed between the different participation profiles and digital and socio-civic skills, underlining that the development of digital and socio-civic skills are essential for educating in digital citizenship.
Keywords: Digital citizenship, digital skills, education, socio-civic skills, youth participation.
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