EXPLORING ACTIVE EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP: AN EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT OF PROMOTION AND COMMUNICATION

Autori

  • Elena Giacomelli Department of Sociology and Business of Law, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Michela Zingone Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v5i6.927

Parole chiave:

active citizenship, civic empowerment, European Union, young adults, ethnography

Abstract

The European Union celebrates its thirty years anniversary in a peculiar historical moment characterized by crises and emergencies. Being able to count on an informed and active citizenship becomes increasingly necessary. Universities, schools and institutions are teaming up in order to propose projects for sharing information about and promoting the European Union involving all its citizens. Young people, in particular, are identified among the first interlocutors, to whom we entrust communication between peers, exploiting the potential of digital media. In a context often dominated by fake-news, complete and source-aware information about the European Union becomes an essential tool for citizens' empowerment. This article proposes a reflection starting from a multi-sited research conducted in the Italian cities of Bologna, Forlì and Ravenna through a project of the University of Bologna and the Emilia-Romagna Region entitled "Promoting active European citizenship in times of crisis". Through participant observation, the article reflects on the results emerged from word-cafés, workshops and meetings with citizens developed in three different territorial areas and with the involvement of three different targets: first and second grade high school students, university students and adult citizens.

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Biografie autore

  • Elena Giacomelli, Department of Sociology and Business of Law, University of Bologna, Italy
    Elena Giacomelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology and Business of Law at the University of Bologna. She is now working on environmental change and migration dynamics. She obtained a PhD, conducting an ethnographic research on social workers with asylum seekers and refugees. Her research and publications focus on social work with asylum seekers and refugees, migration dynamics, ethnography, cultural sociology. She has conducted many studying and working experiences abroad.
  • Michela Zingone, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
    Michela Zingone is Research Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. She is interested in new media and 2.0 technologies applied to public communication and the promotion of active citizenship and youth participation. Since 2012 she is coordinator of the Digital Communication and Social Media Management Laboratory of the Public and Corporate Communication Master's degree at the University of Bologna.

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2020-10-24

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V. 5 N. 6 (2020)

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