Young digizen? New cultural challenges in media education

Genetically digital, hyper-medial in behavior is the expression that best synthesizes of the portrait of post-modern generations, often in opposition compared to the enthusiasm of a lot of recent scientific literature oriented towards the deepening of the relationship between youth and digital media. Indicators of generational identification change and even the interpretative paradigms of communication sociological scholars have to change. The cultural habits of young people suggest to us to ask about the cultural value of the media for teens, the new trends of behavioral individualism, that give us new concepts on the relationship between youth and media: is it possible to speak about new forms of ego-technologies? This book describes the complex picture that renders the problematic perspective of analysis and research for those who are interested in this topic. Specifically, the book is a range of macro-analyses on the individualization of new interpretative theories: from hardware to software. It is almost as an inversion of focus, to those more inserted into the critical map, as the delicate question of digital competences are often too imbalanced on types of aesthetic citizenship because they are oriented towards skills while completely lacking in ethical responsibility and critical analysis. On Air. The European Project on Media Education has been an effective research input that has allowed us to take hold of the scientific discussion on the relationship between digital media and teens in the perspective of citizenship education, both from a methodological and thematic point of view, and in order to launch new stimuli of cultural investigations and closer examinations. On the other hand, the book seeks to investigate the role of cultural mediation, as redemption from the philosophy of excess, evident in both cultural behavior and the acquisition of competences and, finally, in the socialization pendulum which is too unbalanced to the ego. The depth of cultural capital in the behaviors of digital consumption is at the basis of the new frontiers of digital citizenship.