Emerging Communication Technologies and the Practices of Enhanced Deliberation: The Experience of Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute | Zendy

Alessandra Beasley Von Burg | Zendy; Ron Von Burg | Zendy; Gordon R. Mitchell | Zendy; Allan D. Louden | Zendy

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Emerging Communication Technologies and the Practices of Enhanced Deliberation: The Experience of Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute

Author(s) -

Alessandra Beasley Von Burg,

Ron Von Burg,

Gordon R. Mitchell,

Allan D. Louden

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of deliberative democracy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2634-0488

DOI - 10.16997/jdd.136

Subject(s) - deliberation , citizenship , democracy , state (computer science) , media studies , political science , sociology , law , politics , computer science , algorithm

A U.S. Department of State funded program, the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute, has taught hundreds of high-school aged students from Eurasia and the United States practices of democratic deliberation using networked media. A survey of the program’s curricular innovations since 2006, involving integration of YouTube, Facebook, and documentary film, yields insight on how the advent and circulation of “(de-)liberation” technologies present pathways for young students to practice efficacious and convivial forms of cosmopolitan citizenship in our digital age.

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