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In this article we argue that young people's political participation in the social media can be considered 'public pedagogy'. The argument builds on a previous empirical analysis of a Swedish net community called Black Heart. Theoretically, the article is based on a particular notion of public pedagogy, education and Hannah Arendt's expressive agonism. The political participation that takes place in the net community builds up an educational situation that involves central characteristics: communication, community building, a strong content focus and content production, argumentation and rule following. These characteristics pave the way for young people's public voicing, experiencing, preferences and political interests that guide their everyday political life and learning – a phenomenon that we understand as a form of public pedagogy.

The paper focuses on the issue of children's political participation and considers the idea of political participation understood as a human right. Contingently it considers the question of children as agents or potential political actors, as well as the assumed limitations of their role. The paper begins by offering an outline of how children's rights have come to be considered in the international context as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and the idealized concept of childhood that is implicit in this convention. The paper then proposes some alternative approaches to understanding childhood and children's status, with a view to proposing a more nuanced approach to their political participation that neither treats them as passive recipients of duties towards them, nor as the voiceless possessions of groups or families. This is followed by an account of the emerging debate about deliberative democracy as a more substantive approach to political participation, and by some consideration of how this relates to the rights and capabilities of children as political actors. The paper concludes with some tentative suggestions about how institutions in South Africa could be utilized to realize a more flexible and nuanced approach to children's participation in this key area.

ABSTRAK. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh gambaran mengenai partisipasi politik pemilih pemula dan strategi yang dilakukan dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik pemilih pemula. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif (quasi kualitatif). Adapun metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah wawancara, dokumentasi, dan penyebaran angket, sedangkan analisis data menggunakan MDAP (Manual Data Analysis Procedure). Penentuan informan dilakukan secara purposive sampling yaitu KPU Purwakarta dan pemilih pemula. Berdasarkan hasil analisis diperoleh bahwa partisipasi politik latent pemilih pemula di Kabupaten Purwakarta masih terbatas pada beberapa kegiatan saja sehingga menyebabkan literasi politik pemilih pemula masih tergolong rendah. Sebagian pemilih pemula hanya tertarik dalam mendiskusikan isu-isu politik saja, meskipun demikian, tingkat partisipasi dalam pemilihan umum sudah tergolong tinggi. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan strategi dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik latent yang berdampak terhadap partisipasi politik manifest pemilih pemula. Strategi dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik pemilih pemula dapat dilakukan oleh KPU dan partai politik secara rutin dan terjadwal sehingga mampu meningkatkan literasi politik pemilih pemula. Selain itu, pemilih pemula itu sendiri memiliki peranan penting dalam meningkatkan literasi politiknya melalui penggunaan media sosial secara bijak dan membangun jejaring sosial yang berkontribusi positif dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik manifest di Purwakarta.