Cyber Crusade: Massive e-sabotage by "hacktivists"
Growing social and economic pressures in Europe result in massive protests and e-sabotage by underemployed IT activists. A "Cyber Crusade" (or CyberJihad) emerges with the aim of reshaping major socio-economic policies, so as t...
Growing failures of social care in educating young people
New evidence mounts demonstrating the lack of educational engagement and achievement among young people from social care backgrounds. The perceived crisis of social care is intensified as “cycles of deprivation” accumulate ...
Recognition of role of work and community in regeneration
European peace corps, where youth unemployment and other problems attacked by large-scale mobilisation of young people in voluntary or semi-voluntary reconstruction and community action work in deprived regions.
New Web 3.0 virtual worlds take over the minds and lives of the youth – blurring the boundaries between entertainment, trading, networking, travel, education and work. The long term effects are similar to hard drug habits but...
The EU youth are never more ‘secure’ than today, and never more insecure and risk-seeking. ‘Extreme activity’ communities include sports and leisure, drugs and sex, virtual worlds, and new strands of fundamentalism. The...