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From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2016

Course Description: Digital and social media platforms have brought about rapid and fundamental changes in the political landscape of our digital age. While those new technologies shape the ways we perceive and read the world, gather information, communicate with others, shape public opinions, and make political judgments, the institutional and electoral arenas have lost the monopoly of political decisionmaking. Instead, there now exist multiple levers to make political influence. Amidst this very change, young people rise as key political actors and re-write the meaning...

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