ABSTRACT
This chapter provides insight into media literacies that embrace a more intentionally civic design. It presents an approach to civic media literacy practice that supports people actively shaping the value of their communities, acting as problem solvers, and supporting positive change at scale. Voice manifests into agency when directed through civic media literacies. It is how the values of voice become agentive. The constructs that support agency in the continuum are also grounded through a series of questions that help prioritize civic media literacies in any intervention. Participation embraces the tactical ways that agency is realized in the world. As the definition of participation in contemporary civic life continues to evolve, so must the ways in which it is understood by those designing media literacy practices and processes. The continuum provides a path to participation but does not require it as an end goal for civic media literacies.
