Belando Montoro, M. (2022). (Ed.). Civic participation in a digital world. Dykinson. 225 pp.

Abstract

It is not often that we find a work with an outlook as original as the one in this book coordinated by María Belando Montoro. Its innovation is in the combination of two topics that are as current as they are rarely tackled: civic participation and virtual environments. Its relevance is also demonstrated by social facts that are the object of academic research and reports by public and private institutions and organisations that result in national and international normative frameworks. It is worth noting the Actualización del Marco de Referencia de la Competencia Digital Docente [Update of the Digital Competence in Education Reference Framework] from May 2022, which, based on its European counterpart DigCompEdu from 2017, develops the valuable work of educators in the current socio-technological setting, where we find the exercise of digital citizenship. Accordingly, the approach of Belando and the team of researchers who participate in this book merits close attention, not just because of its timeliness, but also for another series of aspects that it is important to underline here.