Youth Engaging with the World: Media, Communication and Social Change

The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media’s Yearbook 2009 focuses on youth as a generation of actors and citizens who are increasingly exposed to and making use of media/ICT for entertainment and informational purposes, for social networking and mobilisation, and for knowledge sharing.

From the publisher's website: "Throughout history, young people have often been active participants in the manifestation of social change, and most times their creative uses of media and innovative practices of communication have been crucial in the process. Youth have had key roles in citizen media, in alternative media that stimulate public debate, or in campaigning for particular causes such as HIV/AIDS prevention, political freedom, freedom of expression, fair trade, etc. Different Internet platforms like Facebook, Youtube and blogs have become rapidly growing virtual sites that give shape to new forms of social networking, communication and mobilization, primarily amongst youth.

Young people’s competence in using media, their ability to produce, understand and interact with the multiplicity of both new and old media formats and technologies have been instrumental in the manifestation of social processes of change. This book seeks to explore theoretical assumptions as well as empirical evidence of media and information literacy in action. But it also gathers examples of how youth in developing countries have used their skills to bring about change."

 

Contents include:

Acknowledgement
Foreword

• Florencia Enghel, Thomas Tufte: Introduction: Youth Engaging with Media and Communication. Different, Unequal and Disconnected?
  

Setting the Scene

• Rossana Reguillo: The Warrior’s Code? Youth, Communication and Social Change
  

Memory and Identity: Youth Communicating for their Rights

• Antonieta Muñoz-Navarro: Youth and Human Rights in Chile. Otherness, Political Identity and Social Change
• Violeta Rosemberg, Cecilia Flachsland, Florencia Enghel: Youth, Memory and Justice. The Cromañón Case and Communication in an Age of Precariousness
• Iryna Vidanava: From Pages to Pixels. Belarus' Unique Youth Multimedia Magazine
• Jiwon Yoon The Power of Voice. North Koreans Negotiating Identity and Social Integration via Mediated Storytelling
  

Voices of the Youth: Coping, Criticizing and Calling for Chang

• Rashweat Mukundu: Alternative Voices under Repression. Zimbabwe’s Youth Media Projects
• Stine Kromann-Larsen, Mette Grøndahl Hansen, Lise Grauenkær Jensen: Young Voices Driving Social Change
• Thomas Tufte, Aran Corrigan, Ylva Ekström, Minou Fuglesang, Datius Rweyemamu: From Voice to Participation? Analysing Youth Agency in Letter Writing in Tanzania
• Ece Algan: "There Is No Permission to Love in Our Urfa". Media, Youth Identities and Social Change in Southeast Turkey
  

Youth as Subjects - of Content, Programs, Projects and Regulations

• Peter Lemish, Elke Schlote: Media Portrayals of Youth Involvement in Social Change. The Roles of Agency, Praxis, and Conflict Resolution Processes in TV Programs
• Johan Lagerkvist: Contesting Norms on China’s Internet? The Party-state, Youth, and Social Change
• Nkosi Martin Ndlela Critical Voices. Student Activism, Communication and Social Change in Zimbabwe
• Robert Huesca: Ethical Challenges in U.S. Youth Radio Training Programs
  

Youth in Processes: Participatory Production

• Karen Greiner: Participatory Communication Processes as Infusions of Innovation. The Case of 'Scenarios from Africa'
• Ana Zanotti: Views in Progress, Views in Process. A Participatory Video Experience with Young People in a Space of Borderlands
• Claudius Ceccon: Learning to Change the World Right Here. Youth, Educommunication and Social Change in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• José Paulo de Araújo: Communication School for Children. Connecting Caves to the World