Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
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Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement

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Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement

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It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today's young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.

The Evolving Citizen challenges this decline thesis and argues instead that democratic engagement has not gotten worse—it has simply changed. Through an analysis of seven high school newspapers from 1965 to 2010, this book shows that young people today, according to what they have to say for themselves, are just as enmeshed in civic and political life as the adolescents who came before them. American youth remain good citizens concerned about their communities and hopeful that they can help make a difference. But as The Evolving Citizen demonstrates, today's youth understand and perform their roles as citizens differently because the world they live in has changed remarkably over the last half century.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780271060002
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Rhetoric
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. CIP Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Chapter 1: American Youth: Who They Are and Why They Matter
  6. Notes to Chapter 1
  7. Chapter 2: American High School: Teenagers and Scholastic Journalism
  8. Notes to Chapter 2
  9. Chapter 3: Dislocated Cosmopolitans
  10. Notes to Chapter 3
  11. Chapter 4: Removed Volunteers
  12. Notes to Chapter 4
  13. Chapter 5: Protective Critics
  14. Notes to Chapter 5
  15. Chapter 6: Independent Joiners
  16. Notes to Chapter 6
  17. Chapter 7: American Evolution, Democratic Engagement, and Civic Education
  18. Notes to Chapter 7
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. COVER Back