2,853
Views
8
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Backed into a corner: challenging media and policy representations of youth citizenship in the UK

&
Pages 1714-1732 | Received 08 May 2017, Accepted 26 Feb 2018, Published online: 20 Mar 2018

References

  • AEGEE Europe. (2014). Position paper in youth participation in democratic processes. Brussels: Author.
  • Almond, G., & Verba, S. (1963). The civic culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Amnå, E., & Ekman, J. (2014). Standby citizens: Diverse faces of political passivity. European Political Science Review, 6(2), 261–281. doi: 10.1017/s175577391300009x
  • Bakardjieva, M. (2012). Reconfiguring the mediapolis: New media and civic agency. New Media & Society, 14(1), 63–79. doi: 10.1177/1461444811410398
  • Banaji, S. (2008). The trouble with civic: A snapshot of young people’s civic and political engagements in twenty-first-century democracies. Journal of Youth Studies, 11(5), 543–560. doi: 10.1080/13676260802283008
  • Banaji, S., & Buckingham, D. (2010). Young people, the internet, and civic participation: An overview of key findings from the CivicWeb project. International Journal of Learning and Media, 2(1), 15–24. doi: 10.1162/ijlm_a_00038
  • Banaji, S., & Buckingham, D. (2013). The civic web: Young people, the internet and civic participation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Banaji, S., & Cammaerts, B. (2015). Citizens of nowhere land. Journalism Studies, 16(1), 115–132. doi: 10.1080/1461670x.2014.890340
  • Barber, B. (1984). Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  • Bennett, W. L. (Ed.). (2008). Civic life online: Learning how digital media can engage youth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Bessant, J. (2016). Democracy denied, youth participation and criminalizing digital dissent. Journal of Youth Studies, 19(7), 921–937. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2015.1123235
  • Buckingham, D. (2000). The making of citizens: Young people, news and politics. London: Routledge.
  • Cammaerts, B. (2013). The mediation of insurrectionary symbolic damage: The 2010 UK student protests. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 18(4), 525–548. doi: 10.1177/1940161213496283
  • Cammaerts, B., Bruter, M., Banaji, S., Harrison, S., & Anstead, N. (2016). Youth participation in democratic life: Stories of hope and disillusion. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, & Anstead, Nick. (2014). The Myth of Youth Apathy. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(5), 645–664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515992
  • Carpentier, N. (2011). Media and participation: A site of ideological-democratic struggle. Bristol: Intellect.
  • Crick, B. R. (1998). Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools: Final report of the advisory group on citizenship. London: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
  • Cushion, S. (2007). Protesting their apathy? An analysis of British Press coverage of young anti-Iraq war protestors. Journal of Youth Studies, 10(4), 419–437. doi: 10.1080/13676260701462695
  • Dahlgren, P. (2009). Media and political engagement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (2005). Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research (pp. 1–32). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Department for Education. (2014). Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools departmental advice for maintained schools. London: Author.
  • Dezelan, T. (2015). Young people and democratic life in Europe: What next after the 2014 European elections? Brussels: EuropeanYouth Forum.
  • Edwards, K. (2007). From deficit to disenfranchisement: Reframing youth electoral participation. Journal of Youth Studies, 10(5), 539–555. doi: 10.1080/13676260701600070
  • Entman, R. M. (2007). Framing bias: Media in the distribution of power. Journal of Communication, 57(1), 163–173. doi:10.1111/j.1460–2466.2006.00336.x doi: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00336.x
  • Franklin, M. N., Mackie, T. T., & Valen, H. (2009). Electoral change: Responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in western countries. Colchester: ECPR Press.
  • Gramsci, A., Hoare, Q., & Nowell-Smith, G. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
  • Hart, S. (2009). The ‘problem’ with youth: Young people, citizenship and the community. Citizenship Studies, 13(6), 641–657. doi: 10.1080/13621020903309656
  • Held, D. (2006). Models of democracy (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Henn, M., & Foard, N. (2012). Young people, political participation and trust in Britain. Parliamentary Affairs, 65(1), 47–67. doi: 10.1093/pa/gsr046
  • Isin, E. F. (2009). Citizenship in flux: The figure of the activist citizen. Subjectivity, 29(1), 367–388. doi: 10.1057/sub.2009.25
  • Isin, E. F., & Nielsen, G. M. (Eds.). (2008). Acts of citizenship. London: Zed Books.
  • Loader, B. D. (Ed.). (2007). Young citizens in the digital age: Political engagement, young people and new media. London: Routledge.
  • LSE Enterprise. (2013, February). EACEA 2010/03: Youth participation in democratic life – final report. London: Author.
  • Marshall, T. H. (1950). Citizenship and social class and other essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McDowell, L., Rootham, E., & Hardgrove, A. (2014). Politics, anti-politics, quiescence and radical unpolitics: Young men’s political participation in an ‘ordinary’ English town. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(1), 42–62. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2013.825709
  • Mejias, S. (2017). Politics, power and protest: Rights-based education policy and the limits of human rights education. In M. Bajaj (Ed.), Human rights education: Theory, research, praxis (pp. 119–136). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Mejias, S., & Banaji, S. (2017). UK youth perspectives and priorities for Brexit negotiations (Report for the All Party Parliamentary Group on a Better Brexit for Young People).
  • Osler, A., & Starkey, H. (2005). Changing citizenship: Democracy and inclusion in education. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
  • O’Toole, T. L., Lister, M., Dave, M., Su, J., Alex, M. (2003). Tuning out or left out? Participation and non-participation among young people. Contemporary Politics, 9(1), 45–61. doi: 10.1080/1356977032000072477
  • Pateman, C. (1970). Participation and democratic theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pattie, C., Seyd, P., & Whiteley, P. (2004). Citizenship in Britain: Values, participation and democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pilkington, H. P., & Gary, P. (2015). ‘Politics are bollocks’: Youth, politics and activism in contemporary Europe. The Sociological Review, 63(S2), 1–35. doi: 10.1111/1467-954x.12260
  • Ramasubramanian, S. (2011). The impact of stereotypical versus counter-stereotypical media exemplars on racial attitudes, causal attributions, and support for affirmative action. Communication Research, 38, 497–516. doi: 10.1177/0093650210384854
  • Saldaña, J. (1998). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. London: Ashgate.
  • Silverstone, R. (2006). Media and morality: On the rise of the mediapolis. Cambridge: Polity press.
  • Sloam, J. (2014). ‘The outraged young’: Young Europeans, civic engagement and the new media in a time of crisis. Information, Communication & Society, 17(2), 217–231. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2013.868019
  • Soler-i-Martí, R., & Ferrer-Fons, M. (2015). Youth participation in context: The impact of youth transition regimes on political action strategies in Europe. The Sociological Review, 63(S2), 92–117. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12264
  • Soroka, S., & Wlezien, C. (2010). Degrees of democracy: Politics, public opinion and policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • UK Government. (2011). Positive for youth: A new approach to cross-government policy for young people aged 13 to 19.
  • UK Government. (2015). Revised prevent duty guidance for England and Wales.
  • van der Eijk, C., & Franklin, M. N. (1996). Choosing Europe? The European electorate and national politics in the face of union. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Vromen, A. (2008). Building virtual spaces: Young people, participation and the internet. Australian Journal of Political Science, 43(1), 79–97. doi: 10.1080/10361140701842581
  • Wayne, M., Henderson, L., Murray, C., & Petley, J. (2008). Television news and the symbolic criminalisation of young people. Journalism Studies, 9(1), 75–90. doi: 10.1080/14616700701768105

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.