TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescents’ Analyses of Digital Media Related to Race and Racism in the 2020 U.S. Election
T2 - An Assessment of Their Needs and Skills
AU - Coopilton, Matthew
AU - Tynes, Brendesha M.
AU - Gibson, Stephen M.
AU - Kahne, Joseph
AU - English, Devin
AU - Nazario, Karinna
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by The American Academy of Political and Social Science.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Adolescents’ heavy engagement with digital news and social media brings them considerable exposure to race-related content, especially during election cycles. We assess how well young people navigate that kind of digital content, using a nationally representative longitudinal study in which baseline data was collected during and after the 2020 election. We categorize young people’s responses to two real-life examples of digital media related to participation in the election as beginner, emerging, and mastery level in terms of their ability to critique racism. We also find responses that we categorize as race evasive, anticritical, and white supremacist. Most of these young people performed at the beginner level, and a minority achieved mastery. We argue that there is a clear need for young people to be better prepared to assess race-related online information and that educators need to support them in developing those skills.
AB - Adolescents’ heavy engagement with digital news and social media brings them considerable exposure to race-related content, especially during election cycles. We assess how well young people navigate that kind of digital content, using a nationally representative longitudinal study in which baseline data was collected during and after the 2020 election. We categorize young people’s responses to two real-life examples of digital media related to participation in the election as beginner, emerging, and mastery level in terms of their ability to critique racism. We also find responses that we categorize as race evasive, anticritical, and white supremacist. Most of these young people performed at the beginner level, and a minority achieved mastery. We argue that there is a clear need for young people to be better prepared to assess race-related online information and that educators need to support them in developing those skills.
KW - 2020 election
KW - adolescent civic engagement
KW - computational propaganda
KW - critical race digital literacy
KW - critical race media literacy
KW - digital literacies
KW - online civic reasoning
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U2 - 10.1177/00027162231195186
DO - 10.1177/00027162231195186
M3 - Article
SN - 0002-7162
VL - 705
SP - 208
EP - 230
JO - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
JF - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
IS - 1
ER -