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: 2018
Pages: 23
Source title: Reconceptualizing New Media and Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nurhayat Bilge (Florida International University, USA)and María Inés Marino (Florida International University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3784-7.ch011

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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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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