"engaged", "engagement" and "civics"
"While activists on the left and the right have seen law as the most powerful lever for change in the past several decades, a new wave of engaged citizens is leveraging markets, writing code, and working to reshape and influence social norms. As we look beyond the paralysis that grips many governments and consider a broader vision of engagement, it becomes apparent that this is both a dark moment for civics, as well as one of the brightest we've seen in generations." (Ethan Zuckerman, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith In Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them)
What do the words "engaged", "engagement" and "civics" mean here?
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Hi If you are keenly interested in a social situation and you take part in it, actively, then you engage with it. Maybe you write about it in the media, go to meetings about it, organise events for it, and so on. In fact, there are many ways in which a person can engage - and people are thinking of new and creative ways all the time: they are looking for a broader vision of engagement.
- Hi If you are keenly interested in a social situation and you take part in it, actively, then you engage with it.
- Maybe you write about it in the media, go to meetings about it, organise events for it, and so on.
- In fact, there are many ways in which a person can engage - and people are thinking of new and creative ways all the time: they are looking for a broader vision of engagement.
- When a person engages with a social or political activity, a phrase that can be used is 'civic participation': the act of joining with other people to improve a community or, perhaps, to fight for justice.
- A short way of saying 'civic participation' is 'civics'.
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If you are keenly interested in a social situation and you take part in it, actively, then you engage with it. Maybe you write about it in the media, go to meetings about it, organise events for it, and so on.
In fact, there are many ways in which a person can engage - and people are thinking of new and creative ways all the time: they are looking for a broader vision of
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