Work plan:

• Watch the introductory video.
• Read the materials.
• Do the quiz.
• Choose an example of online participation by young people / millennials. Identify and characterize the following aspects:
  • Initiators: individual, collectives, etc.
  • Target: group of people / institution to whom it is addressed, topic, goals, etc.
  • Platform/Channels: kind messages used, how are they spread, technique/technology (format, support…), etc.
  • Deliberation: how interaction happens, what kind of feedback do they get (from target group, from society at large)
• Summarize your work in a presentation. Share it on Google Slides or Slideshare.
• Share the link in the forum and on Twitter (#EURYKAmooc).
• Follow the debate in the forum.

Introductory video

Recommended readings:

• Results of EURYKA WP1
• Preliminary work on EURYKA WP7

• Kurban, C., Peña-López, I. & Haberer, M. (2017). “What is technopolitics? A conceptual scheme for understanding politics in the digital age”. In IDP. Revista de Internet, Derecho y Ciencia Política, 24. Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Retrieved May 21, 2017 from http://idp.uoc.edu/articles/3061/galley/3221/download/
• Peña-López, I., Congosto, M. & Aragón, P. (2014). “Spanish Indignados and the evolution of the 15M movement on Twitter: towards networked para-institutions”. In Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 15 (1-2), 189-216. New York: Routledge. Retrieved August 24, 2014 from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2014.931678
• Vromen, A., Xenos, M. a. & Loader, B., 2014. Young people, social media and connective action: from organisational maintenance to everyday political talk. Journal of Youth Studies, 6261(July 2014), pp.1–21. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ariadne_Vromen/publication/272591369_Young_people_social_media_and_connective_action_From_organisational_maintenance_to_everyday_political_talk/links/54f67eea0cf2ca5efefe483f/Young-people-social-media-and-connective-action-From-organisational-maintenance-to-everyday-political-talk.pdf

Other suggested readings:

• Peña-López, I. (2017). Citizen participation and the rise of the open source city in Spain. Bengaluru: IT for Change. Retrieved May 20, 2017 from http://itforchange.net/mavc/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Research-Brief-Spain.pdf
• Sánchez-Navarro, J. & Aranda, D., 2012. Messenger and social network sites as tools for sociability, leisure and informal learning for Spanish young people. European Journal of Communication, 28(1), pp.67–75. Available at: http://ejc.sagepub.com/content/28/1/67.full.pdf.

Special monograph. New online spaces and practices for political participation

Through technological progress, a multitude of new online spaces for political participation have emerged. This dossier addresses concepts such as technopolitics or digital democracy, while also exploring the use of social media in politics, giving a number of examples of online platforms for political participation..