TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring how young people’s access to news literacy education influences their digital civic engagement
AU - Lee, Jee Young
AU - Park, Sora
AU - Notley, Tanya
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This study examines the effectiveness of news literacy education on young Australian’s digital civic engagement using propensity score matching, a method that ensures balanced comparisons between those who have received news literacy education and those who haven’t. A representative online survey of young Australians aged 12–16 years (n = 627) was conducted in June 2023. We found no differences in young people’s exposure to news literacy education opportunities based on age, gender, and region. However, parents’ education has a significance influence on young people’s exposure to news literacy education. A regression analysis reveals that news literacy education is positively related to young people’s digital civic engagement, confirmed by the propensity score matching analysis. The study demonstrates the critical role of news literacy education in fostering informed and engaged digital citizens, highlighting the need for inclusive and comprehensive news literacy programs in the national curriculum.
AB - This study examines the effectiveness of news literacy education on young Australian’s digital civic engagement using propensity score matching, a method that ensures balanced comparisons between those who have received news literacy education and those who haven’t. A representative online survey of young Australians aged 12–16 years (n = 627) was conducted in June 2023. We found no differences in young people’s exposure to news literacy education opportunities based on age, gender, and region. However, parents’ education has a significance influence on young people’s exposure to news literacy education. A regression analysis reveals that news literacy education is positively related to young people’s digital civic engagement, confirmed by the propensity score matching analysis. The study demonstrates the critical role of news literacy education in fostering informed and engaged digital citizens, highlighting the need for inclusive and comprehensive news literacy programs in the national curriculum.
KW - Digital civic engagement
KW - Media literacy
KW - News literacy
KW - Online survey
KW - Propensity score matching
KW - Young people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105021095675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/westernsydney.edu.au?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-025-00200-2
U2 - 10.1007/s43151-025-00200-2
DO - 10.1007/s43151-025-00200-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105021095675
SN - 2204-9193
JO - Journal of Applied Youth Studies
JF - Journal of Applied Youth Studies
ER -