Wired Citizenship

<p><em>Wired Citizenship</em> examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In today’s digital age in which formal schooling often competes with the peer-driven outlets provided by social media youth all over the globe have forged new models of civic engagement rewriting the script of what it means to live in a democratic society. As a result state-society relationships have shifted—never more clearly than in the MENA region where recent uprisings were spurred by the mobilization of tech-savvy and politicized youth.</p><p>Combining original research with a thorough exploration of theories of democracy communications and critical pedagogy this edited collection describes how youth are performing citizenship innovating systems of learning and re-imagining the practices of activism in the information age. Recent case studies illustrate the context-specific effects of these revolutionary new forms of learning and social engagement in the MENA region.<br> </p>