Engl. transl.: EU KIDS ONLINE 2019 in Finland: Focus on youth civic non-participation and media literacy

Kids all over the world, including Europe, are using diversified online platforms to meet their everyday goals in various purposes such as education, entertainment, consumption, interaction, creation and so on. Young people’s widespread engagement with modern technologies helps them to learn in the media and through the media that has resulted to turn them into digital citizen. However, in Finland, mediacentric youth generation is still not interested in participating civic matters online. Therefore, the aim of the study is to frame this civic non-participatory tendency in the manuscript of the article titled ‘Youth online in Finland: civic non-participation’. Moreover, the reflection paper is for moving forward the discussion of the manuscript’s certain issue by constructing a model of civic media education as a pedagogical solution of civic nonparticipation. This study is a part of EU KIDS ONLINE 2019, basically focused on Finland where 1350 Finnish youth respondents represented the age group of 9 to 17. EU KIDS ONLINE is a Europe based survey which has been conducted in 21 European countries. The aim of this survey is to ensure youth’s safety in web platform by evaluating their uses and experiences of online activities. Finally, this statistical research has created opportunity to work more on Finnish youth and their civic activity from qualitative perspective. In addition, it also may help the policy makers to implement new form of civic media education in Finnish pedagogy.

Mediacentric youth generation is still not interested in participating civic matters online. Discussion about how to construct a model of civic media education as a pedagogical solution of civic nonparticipation.