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Agentive Students Using Social Media – Spatial Positionings and Engagement in Space2cre8

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During the last couple of years the tension between user-generated content creation and corporate power structures has become an important issue in research on young people and social media. The approach presented in this chapter is about the role of education and learning linked to issues of participation, creation and agency within spatial relationships online and offline. The activities studied are part of an online environment called Space2cre8 with the specific purpose of engaging youngsters who are defined as at risk in communicative and collaborative activities. Different data sources are presented to shed light on the engagement of these youngsters. The research question is directed towards how students in a multicultural class in one community of Oslo engage themselves in the new spaces represented by Space2cre8 made available through school activities, but also as part of their everyday life. Implications are discussed concerning media literacy, new activism and empowerment among youth.

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    See http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/

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    www.ted.com/playlists/26/our_digital_lives.html

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    Ola Erstad

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  2. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Koen Ponnet

  3. Department of Edu Studies & iMinds-MICT, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Ellen Vanderhoven

  4. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Jacques Haers

  5. University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Barbara Segaert

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Erstad, O. (2016). Agentive Students Using Social Media – Spatial Positionings and Engagement in Space2cre8 . In: Walrave, M., Ponnet, K., Vanderhoven, E., Haers, J., Segaert, B. (eds) Youth 2.0: Social Media and Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27893-3_5

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