U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces

The key goal of this project is to provide a research-based understanding of the interconnection between cultural and technological preconditions for strengthening youth participation in digital dialogue spaces.

Young people have largely withdrawn from traditional forms of democratic participation. They are still keen to engage in democratic life, but ask for more and different public spaces of participation. Addressing this challenge, the key goal of the U YouPa project is to provide a research-based understanding of the interconnection between cultural and technological preconditions for strengthening youth participation in digital dialogue spaces, thus meeting the fundamental challenges of inclusion currently emerging in European countries.

Key research questions are:

• How do existing participatory media formats used by young people meet the challenges of media literacy, diversity, intercultural dialogue and inclusion in European nations?
• What and how can young people contribute to recommendations for acquiring media literacy that would advance creativity and inclusiveness among youth with different sociocultural backgrounds?

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