Digital Culture, New Media, and Youth. ...

The special issue of the MedienJournal comprises four contributions discussing different educational aspects of a digitally immersed youth culture.

In the first contribution “Education within Digital Culture: Shifting the Paradigms of Prospective Knowledge by Mediatization”, Gudrun Marci-Boehncke and Matthias Rath focus on the changing paradigms of education under the conditions of mediatization and digitalization.

The paper entitled “Digital Sovereignty of Adolescents” by Jane Müller, Katrin Potzel, Mareike Thumel and Rudolf Kammerl, develops a first systematization of the concept Digital Sovereignty.

The third paper entitled “All’s Simple (Club)? Education and Learning in the Digital World” by Jana Metz and Ilona Cwielong, is narrowly focused on explanatory videos and tutorials spread via YouTube and other channels, that have become an integral part of young peoples’ everyday life. 

Isabell Koinig closes the issue with a theoretical contribution on the varying degrees of importance concerning the online privacy of adolescents. Based on a review of relevant articles, she discusses phenomena like the “new privacy paradox”.