This book integrates and bridges four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes.

Peter Dahlgren is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction Part 2: New Realities: Youth, Democracy and the Emerging Media Landscape 2. Civic Learning in Changing Democracies: Challenges for Citizenship and Civic Education 3. Changing Life Courses, New Media, and Citizenship: The Impact of Reflexive Biographization on Young People's Democratic Engagement 4. Young People's Identity Construction and Patterns of Media Use and Participation in Germany and Austria Part 3: Situating Young Citizens' Media Use 5. Constant Connection versus Apathetic Consumers: Understanding Young People's Participation Online 6. From Big Brother to Big Brother: Two Faces of Interactive Engagement 7. Mobile Monitoring: Aspects of Risk and Surveillance and Questions of Democratic Perspectives in Young People's Uses of Mobile Phones 8. Finding a Global Voice? Migrant Children, New Media and the Limits of Empowerment Part 4: Media, Engagement, and Everyday Life 9. Learning about Democracy: Familyship and Negotiated ICT Users' Practices 10. An Indispensable Resource: The Internet and Young Engagement 11. Social Networks of Young Political Activists in the Alter-Globalisation Movement 12. Patterns of Media Use and Political Development among Youth: Manifest and Latent Outcomes