Symposium
Emerging Communication Technologies and the Practices of Enhanced Deliberation: The Experience of Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute
Authors:
Alessandra B. Von Burg ,
Wake Forest University, US
Ron Von Burg,
Wake Forest University, US
Gordon R. Mitchell,
University of Pittsburgh - Main Campus, US
Allan D. Louden
Wake Forest University, US
Abstract
A U.S. Department of State funded program, the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute, has taught hundreds of high-school aged students from Eurasia and the United States practices of democratic deliberation using networked media. A survey of the program’s curricular innovations since 2006, involving integration of YouTube, Facebook, and documentary film, yields insight on how the advent and circulation of “(de-)liberation” technologies present pathways for young students to practice efficacious and convivial forms of cosmopolitan citizenship in our digital age.
How to Cite:
Von Burg, A. B., Von Burg, R., Mitchell, G. R., & Louden, A. D. (2012). Emerging Communication Technologies and the Practices of Enhanced Deliberation: The Experience of Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute. Journal of Public Deliberation, 8(1), 14. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.136
Published on
16 Apr 2012.
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