Here are some interesting web 2.0 resources for civic engagement that I’ve run across this spring.  The idea behind all three is to lure young people into civic engagement through Web2.0 tools. 

• Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement by Howard Rheingold  http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262524827.097 
• Participatory Media Literacy, a wiki follow up to Rheingold’s essay  https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/index.cgi
•  Unrelated, except in spirit is this “Serious Game for the Public Good” where players are invited to imagine we are running out of oil and to contribute words and images to the collective discussion using 2.0 media.  http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/  

Carolyn