Callahan Rebecca M, Rico Julieta, Obenchain Kathryn M, Ochoa Claudia, De Santos-Quezada Angeles
Department of Education, University of Vermont; Burlington, VT, USA.
Department of Education, University of California at Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Identities (Yverdon). 2024;31(6):707-728. doi: 10.1080/1070289X.2024.2367895. Epub 2024 Jun 16.
We explore how Latiné immigrant-origin youth used and made sense of media to enact their civic identities during the 2020 US presidential election cycle. In a polarized national context, this project highlights the voices and experiences of the participants (n=39). We conducted and analysed semi-structured interviews to identify three comprehensive themes. Findings suggest that participants used social media to dispel misinformation allowed them to redefine community and belonging, becoming informed citizens to protect and strengthen these communities, acting on their distrust of media, democracy's fourth pillar, and reframing what it means to belong to and engage in a democracy.
我们探讨了拉丁裔移民出身的年轻人如何利用媒体并理解媒体，以便在2020年美国总统选举周期中塑造他们的公民身份。在两极分化的国家背景下，这个项目突出了参与者（n = 39）的声音和经历。我们进行并分析了半结构化访谈，以确定三个全面的主题。研究结果表明，参与者利用社交媒体消除错误信息，这使他们能够重新定义社区和归属感，成为明智的公民以保护和加强这些社区，对作为民主第四支柱的媒体表示不信任并采取行动，以及重新界定属于民主并参与民主意味着什么。
