Given the hopes and hype regarding the civic potential of the web, the number of books containing primary empirical data of adequate breadth and depth is surprisingly small (see, for example, Loader, 2007; Loader and Mercea, 2012). Based on a major research project funded by the European Commission, this book by Shakuntala Banaji and David Buckingham makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of the Internet in youth engagement. The book's key contribution lies both in its spatial breadth (case studies are drawn from seven European countries, including Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom) and in its methodological scope, offering a three-dimensional representation based on analysis of web content, production and youth narratives.
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