What is it like to be a citizen at the beginning of the twenty-first century?

With public events and candidates filtered through television, newspapers, and the Web, citizenship can't mirror the ideal from the original democracy of ancient Greece. The experience of today's generation probably doesn't resemble that of the activist ’60s, either.

What does it mean nowadays to be “political”?

This Web page aims to help you find out more—and lets you share your own media life history.

Instructions for writing a life history are available in English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.