ABSTRACT Around the world policymakers are exploring the kinds of skills and competencies that teenagers need to have to contribute to society as digital citizens. Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child framework, and informed by critical analysis of discourses around digital citizenship, this paper explores the competencies already demonstrated by many adolescents and addresses the priorities identified by policymakers. It compares the top-down adult policymakers’ blueprints for digital citizenship with the performances of citizenship by many young people, who mobilise digital resources to communicate with powerful others as a means of progressing their aims. Drawing upon examples of small-scale teenage activism, and linking these to some of the big questions of the age: climate change, gender equity and social justice, the paper moves beyond discussions of tech-addiction and online passivity to investigate adolescents’ strategic engagement in digital spaces to achieve a more equitable future.

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自信，有能力和世界变化：青少年和数字公民

摘要世界各地的决策者都在探索青少年为作为数字公民为社会做出贡献所需的各种技能和能力。本文基于《联合国儿童权利公约》框架，并通过对有关数字公民身份的论述进行严格分析，探讨了许多青少年已经展现出的能力，并解决了政策制定者确定的优先事项。它把自上而下的成人决策者的数字公民蓝图与许多年轻人的公民表现进行了比较，年轻人调动了数字资源与强大的人进行沟通，以此来达到他们的目标。借鉴小规模青少年激进主义的例子，并将其与时代的一些重大问题联系起来：气候变化，性别平等和社会正义，