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      Media education and educational commons for youth civic engagement. A case study from the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH

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          This study presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and establishing spaces of democratic citizenship that support the development of local communities. Our case study adopts this paradigm with insights derived from the field of media education. Hence, our research questions were as follows: (a) How do young people collectively experience and build the educational commons? (b) How do participants (youth and adults) in educational commons experience peer governance and how do they handle and resolve conflicts? (c) How does the co-creation of a photo-blog as a shared space of work help young people discover and develop a "civic intentionality" in the (digital) public sphere? (d) What are the effects of applying a commons' logic to address inequalities and achieve social inclusion of young people from vulnerable social groups? Fieldwork, framed in an ethnographic and action-research approach, was developed by examining the three dimensions of the notion of educational commons (commoners, commoning practices, and community). Although data collection and analysis are still in progress, our preliminary results allow us to draw some initial reflections on what worked well in the first round and what could hinder the achievement of the project's objectives. We also propose hypotheses for re-designing the second round to overcome the weaknesses that emerged during the first experimental phase and foster its strengths.

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                Journal
                Front Sociol
                Front Sociol
                Front. Sociol.
                Frontiers in Sociology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                2297-7775
                12 January 2023
                2022
                : 7
                : 1108229
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Psychology, Educational Science, and Human Movement, University of Palermo , Palermo, Italy
                [2] 2Department of Cultures and Society, University of Palermo , Palermo, Italy
                Author notes

                Edited by: Maurizio Merico, University of Salerno, Italy

                Reviewed by: Simona Tirocchi, University of Turin, Italy; Alessio Ceccherelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

                *Correspondence: Gianna Cappello ✉ gianna.cappello@ 123456unipa.it

                This article was submitted to Sociological Theory, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sociology

                †These authors have contributed equally to this work

                Article
                10.3389/fsoc.2022.1108229
                9878675
                36714363
                673d2e5c-1f40-47d2-82a4-f979f4cccce4
                Copyright © 2023 Cappello and Siino.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 25 November 2022
                : 14 December 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 59, Pages: 14, Words: 10610
                Funding
                This paper was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement 101004491.
                Categories
                Sociology
                Original Research

                media education,media literacy,educational commons,participatory culture,action research,young people,civic engagement

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