Youth as E-Citizens: Engaging the Digital Generation provides a groundbreaking overview of Web-based efforts to increase youth civic engagement. Beginning with a close-up examination of website content, the report also examines the organizations and institutions creating that content, and the larger environment in which civic sites function. The full report offers:

--Case studies of high-profile sites' strategies for launch, visibility and funding; the online response to 9/11; and online youth activism.
--Discussion of the potential that websites offer to build lasting habits of civic involvement.
--Current developments in technology, regulation and law that raise urgent questions about the viability of the civic Web.