Three children or pre-adolescents (6-14 years) on four in Italy, attending the Network, developing a large familiarity with the Internet that it becomes nearly absolute among the 15 to 24 who (94%). Navigate especially to communicate with messages, WhatsApp, Skype, Viber or Messenger (92% between 14 and 17 years of age), or by using the online applications even for voice and video calls (81%), but there are many less than those who use the web to read newspapers or magazines online (about 40%).
But how many teenagers use the internet to follow or adhere to the causes in the background of social, civic or political, and actively engage in the first person, even over the network? Save the Children has wanted to ask them. On the occasion of the Safer Internet Day 2020 – the world day for the safety of the Network created and promoted by the European Commission for a conscious use of the network, an active and responsible role of each one, to make the internet a positive place and secure – the Organization disseminates the dossier “By the like to the streets: young people and civic participation onlife”, which tells if and how this presence on the network has something to do with their civic participation. Only 1 adolescent 3 (30%) among those who responded to the survey, it is not in writing or is not part of any group or association, 1 out of 6 attend school groups and always 1 out of 6 enrolled in voluntary associations or social associations or religious groups.
membership of cultural associations or associations for the protection of the environment relates to about 7%, while the associations for international cooperation or for the protection of human rights, or movements, political parties or citizens ‘ committees affects about 4% of the respondents. In fact, in Italy between 2011 and 2017 has doubled the share of young people between 15 and 30 years who are active in the territorial organizations that support local communities, rose from 10% in 2011 to 20% in 2017, compared to a european average which has risen from 11 to 13%.
For the 67% of adolescents who responded to the survey, the social represent the channel on which inform, and are activated with respect to issues of social, civic, or political interest to them, followed by the school (65%). Among the themes that most arouses the interest of boys and girls there are: climate change and the protection of the environment (60%), the fight against discrimination, bullying and stereotypes (53%), immigration (25%), the problems of the school and the rights of the child (18%). A good part of the guys surveyed works to spread this information online, mainly through the “I like” (approximately 45%) or by sharing them on your wall or profile (46%), while 1 in 20 (6%) is a step further and helps creating a new content on the subject in question, and, while restricted, 4% comes to write an appeal or a petition to collect signatures to reach a goal. This digital activism, which has been defined as a “activism lazy”, however, remains confined to the web only in 13% of cases.
More than half of the active guys online translates the commitment, even in the direct actions of citizenship, to change things, participating in events to raise awareness or collective mobilization related to the topic of interest. And’ the defense of the environment because that seems to stimulate more step to the action of the boys: 83% of those who have “abandoned the keyboard” out on the street and participate in demonstrations or marches, in fact, has followed assiduously online this theme in the last two years. From the survey, in each case, seems to emerge as the commitment to on-line become for many an access key for a dimension with a direct involvement in the territory.
The example of parents, and in particular that of the mother figure, seems to have a positive effect on the decision to act physically for the causes of social, civic, or political well-known online. Adolescents with a mother active on these causes, are more likely to be members of voluntary associations (41%) than those with a mother not actively engaged socially or politically (27%), and 81% of those who claimed not to be ever passed by the size online the real one has a mother who is not active on these issues. Another important factor in this sense also seems to be a habit to reading of books by children. 57% of those who participate “often” and 47% of those who take “some time” even physically, to the events that followed online, declares to have read more than 3 books out of school in the last year, compared with 9% and 12%, respectively, of those who have not read even one.
“The connection to the network is today a constant in the daily lives of children and young people. You need to protect them from the risks of the network, but at the same time we must not ignore the potential that the network itself can have in the development of their active citizenship,” said Raffaela Milano, Director Programmes Italy-Europe of Save the Children.
“The Republic will fight always in defense of the freedom of information, to its readers and to all those who have at heart the principles of democracy and civil coexistence”
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