ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the dominant digital and global citizenship policy and program frameworks for young people in Australia. It suggests that these tend to take a risk-management and individualistic approach and, in spite of efforts to align their agendas, still struggle to deeply integrate the digital and the global as interlaced domains of young people’s citizenship. Drawing on insights from the authors’ recent research project, the chapter argues for interconnected theoretical and applied approaches that are informed by an engagement with young people’s own practices, especially a closer investigation of their “everyday” use of digital media in a global context. Exploring “everyday” digital practices that youth engage in ordinarily as a form of global digital citizenship can help to generate a more fruitful understanding of what this means to young people experientially and to develop more relevant and youth-centered approaches to digital and global citizenship education.
