71 research outputs found
Living with Computers. Young Danes’ Uses of and Thoughts on the Uses of Computers
No full textStald, Gitte (1998): “Living with Computers. Young Danes’ Uses of and Thoughts on the Uses of Computers”, pp. 199-227 in Stig Hjarvard og Thomas Tufte (red.) Sekvens 1998. Audiovisual Media in Transition. Film & Media Studies, Copenhagen University.Stald, Gitte (1998): “s”, pp. in Stig Hjarvard og Thomas Tufte (red.) . Film & Media Studies, Copenhagen University
The World is Quite Enough: Young Danes, Media and Identity in the Crossing between the Global and the Local
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Chapter 8: Youth Culture
No full textGitte Stald has been researching mobile technologies since their early days ofadoption by younger audiences. In her talk, she focuses on adolescents and theirmobile media use. Stald shares her findings from the longitudinal and cross-cultural studies she has been conducting over the years. The chapter builds on findings from a Danish and a European context, but they can be expanded to think about mobile youth culture in general.Gitte Stald discusses the concepts of digital natives and digital immigrants, sharing, immediacy, and the feeling of presence (or absent presence), social coordination, and the fluidity of time in digital society. The chapter also covers new topics such as the use of mobile phones in digital learning, fear of loss of privacy, power plays in digital interaction, and digital literacy. She talks about how the use of mobile phones in daily life facilitate peer interactions and shows how they allow youth carefully to curate and update the identities they project online, on the go and in real time. As such, Stald argues that mobile phones act as mediators for social engagement and sharing of personal information with others. Growing up with the technology, newer generations view their phones as indispensable to managing their social lives.Stald observes that while being connected all the time gives youth a sense offreedom, control and autonomy, their increasing access to mobile phones is a cause anytime, anywhere access to one another is now possible with mobile phones, time no longer has to be fixed, and can be negotiated.The discussion at the end of the chapter focuses on how technology changes atan increasing pace, and how its adoption changes the way we live and interact.Mobile phone use influences interpersonal and group dynamics, from the smallest unit of society to large social movements, making it crucial for researchers to employ context-aware, collaborative and mixed-methods research to study this new technology
Global Reach, Local Roots: Young Danes and the Internet
No full textStald, Gitte (2003): “”, in Mia Consalvo (ed.) Internet Research Annual Volume 1. Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences, 2000-2002. NY: Peter Lang Publishing. een from a meta-perspective young people’s uses of the Internet do not differ essentially from those of the average population of Internet users. We all basically communicate, find information, are entertained or trade on the net. We meet other people, exchange experience and opinions and emotions. Experience and influence of the various forms and purposes of virtual life are intertwined with our experience and life in the physical world and we develop our identities in the dual realms of the virtual and the physical. The world opens up to us via the Internet when we transgress traditional borders in time, space and place and achieve direct and immediate access to people and places around the globe. At the same time we drag the world into our computer and comprise it into meaning and usefulness in our local context. But, with these general meanings in mind Internet uses - and attitudes towards these - are as much defined by social, cultural and educational background transversely to uses distinctive to age and gender and to individual interests, needs and competence.<br/
Mobile unge - mobil trivsel
No full textDigital trivsel – en antologi om børn og unges onlineliv - Nettet, Facebook og mobilen er blevet en selvfølgelig del af unges dagligdag og sociale liv. Derfor bør det digitale også være et fokuspunkt i det pædagogiske arbejde. Men det er lettere sagt end gjort. For hvilke særlige koder og problemstillinger knytter der sig til de digitale universer og sociale medier? Hvilke rettesnore er der for trivsel og mistrivsel? Og hvilke kompetencer og personlige styrker skal udvikles for, at den enkelte unge får et godt onlineliv? Det er nogle af de spørgsmål, som syv forskellige bidragydere tager under behandling i denne antologi.Medieforskerne Gitte Stald, Malene Charlotte Larsen og Søren Schultz Hansen sætter fokus på hhv. den konstante mobilitet, de digitale indfødte unge og unges sociale liv på og med nettet. Tre organisationer med praksiserfaringer – Red Barnet, Cyberhus og Medierådet for Børn og Unge – bidrager med artikler om forældresamarbejde, digital rådgivning og digital mobning. Endelig sætter filosof Kristian Lund i sin artikel fokus på den digitalpædagogiske udfordring.Digital trivsel – en antologi om børn og unges onlineliv henvender sig til forældre og til fagfolk, der enten er under uddannelse eller allerede arbejder med børn og unge
Young Danes and perceptions of information and political debate
No full textAbstract submitted to ECREA’s Political Communication Section Interim Conference 22-23 November 2017 in Zurich Political Communication in Times of Crisis: New Challenges, Trends & Possibilities Gitte Stald IT University of Copenhagen Denmark E-mail: [email protected] Young Danes and perceptions of information and political debate The debates could be like, well, on Facebook. Or, it could be in kind of small groups. Like with one’s friends. I mean, if you talk things through, and you get a new view on things and they get a new view. Discussing things, that is a good idea. (Anders, 19 years) The profound changes in information and debate patterns and -practices, in particular for young citizens, are important. Societal reference points are increasingly missing and young people have started their own information and debate practices by using available digital media, while still including traditional media and f2f encounters in their information and debate repertoire. Changing practices affect perceptions of what information and informed citizenship is, and how informed citizenship translates into engagement, debate, and democratic participation. Hence, there are discrepancies between traditional normative perceptions of good information and democratic practices, and the changing patterns of young people’s preferred platforms for information and participation (Dahlgren, 2015; Thorson, 2014) Denmark can be characterized as a digital society and the vast majority of the Danish population use digital media extensively, yet, we have not really experienced innovative perceptions of information and participation. These discrepancies appear to influence public discourses about young people as (un)informed citizens, about the information fatigued youth, the individualistic youth, and the understanding of social media as providers of fragmented and un-curated information (Cammaerts et al., 2014; Amnå and Ekman, 2014). The discourses seem to be reproduced in youth cultural contexts, despite numerous examples of youth engaging in and driving events, movements, single case causes, debate, and participation in formal democratic activities (Bennett, 2008; Dahlgren, 2009; Bastedo, 2014) expressed in the quote above. However, is what we experience not simply a variation of young people’s ongoing challenge of societal, traditional norms and values and history repeated in relation to adult worry about the uninformed, disengaged youth and the future of society? No. I claim that radical changes of the foundations of information, debate, and participation, hence of democracy are taking place, to a large degree driven by the young generation and their embracing of social media in their media repertoire. The paper draws on data from two representative surveys (December 2015 & December 2016) among Danes from 16 years and on social media and political engagement. The survey results are contextualized through qualitative data from interviews with 16-24 year old Danes, collected in the fall 2015 respectively 2016
Sustainable democracy. Potentials and pitfalls of young citizens’ informed and democratic citizenship
No full textThis objective of this paper is framed through a triangulation of three points: young citizens are the bearers of future sustainable Democracy (Mascheroni & Murri 2017; Stald 2024); informed citizenship (redefined) is vital for the foundation of sustainable Democracy (Bennett 2008; Mihailidis, 2014); sustainable Democracy depends on the collective ability to allow new forms of information and informed citizenship (Dauer et al., 2021; Stald, 2023), and to support young generations in developing democratic self-efficacy (Cortesei et al., 2020; Stald & Balle, 2024). Sustainable Democracy usually describes development of new democracies by learning from established democracies (Przeworski, 1995) or a connection between sustainability goals and democratic ambition (Ward, 2008). In this paper, however, the term frames the challenge of sustaining Democracy while innovating the idea, foundation, and practices of Democracy in alignment with societal development, informed citizenship, and young people’s experiences and life-practices. The paper draws on a study (2024) that investigates 16–18-year-old Danes’ experiences with being informed, democratic, and participating, digital citizens, including questions of trust and critical reflexivity. The study comprises interviews with 20 highschool students and written essays from 75 highschool students. The informants demonstrate knowledge and opinions about international, national, and local topics. The pivotal point is the perception of politics and Democracy as something that takes place elsewhere, with/among someone who knows more and has more authority. But the informants eventually realize that politics and Democracy are also relatable to them in their everyday lives. This is a vital element in sustaining the foundations of Democracy.<br/
. ‘I believe that democracy is connected to citizenship'. Young Danes and informed, democratic citizenship
No full text'I believe that democracy is connected to citizenship'. Young Danes and informed, democratic citizenshipThe presentation’s objective is to present results from an ongoing study investigating intersecting conditions for young citizens' experiences with and perceptions of informed democratic citizenship. The presentation triangulates three points: Young citizens are the bearers of future sustainable democracy (Cammaerts et al., 2014; Mascheroni & Murri, 2017; Stald, 2023); Informed citizenship redefined is vital for the foundation of sustainable democracy (Bennett, 2008; Ohme et al., 2022); Sustainable democracy depends on the collective ability to allowing new forms of information and informed citizenship, and supporting young generations' development of democratic self-efficacy (Coleman & Blumler, 2009; Cortesi et al., 2020; Stald & Balle, 2024).The study focuses on a broadly defined majority of young Danes. Gray (2017) labels the group 'the silent citizens', but they are also well-informed, democratically engaged, and critically reflective (DUF, 2023; Stald, 2023). The presentation draws on two sets of qualitative interviews: 16 interviews (April 2021) with 16–24-year-old Danes and 20 interviews (April 2024) with 16-18-year-old Danes. The findings are supported by publicly available survey data about young Danish citizens' (social) media use for information and participation (DUF, 2023; Schrøder et al., 2023; Statistics Denmark, 2023). Most informants express that political topics and democratic engagement are sometimes relatable for them, even if they do not want to express their opinions publicly, online or offline, and the notion of the importance of civic information and participation is high:It is about all of us being part of something in common. That we all must influence our and our friends' everyday lives. It is not just about you – and yet it is, very much. Well, and some people manage to debate and stand up and say, 'I represent this point of view'! (Female, 19)<br/
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