Ur'Say for Young Scot

01/03/2002 - 01/05/2004

The ITC worked with Young Scot on their Ur'Say channel, when they were just beginning to use their website to gather young people's opinions and host discussions on relevant issues.

ITC developed new action-research models for online facilitation and moderation of online discussion fora and explored the development of democratic participation and consultation models with young people.

ITC's work with young people
Ur'Say for Young Scot is a Research Councils project funded by Young Scot Enterprises. Carried out in collaboration with Young Scot and others. For further information please refer to http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/projectSummaries.asp#Project11.
 
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Project Team

Professor Ann Macintosh
(not currently an institute member)

Associated Publications

Masters, Z., Macintosh, A., Smith, E. (2004). Young People and E-Democracy: Creating a Culture of Participation. In: (Ed.) Proceedings of Third International Conference in E-Government, EGOV 2004, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Berlin, Germany: . Springer-Verlag.

Macintosh, A., Robson, E., Smith, E., Whyte, A. (2003). Electronic Democracy and Young People. Social Science Computer Review, 21, (1), 43-54.

Keywords: eparticipation, information society, social computing, young people