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Encountering a surprising response to cyberbullying among an immigrant community
No full textLynn Schofield Clark draws on her ethnographic research at a U.S. high school and reflects on the role of digital media in immigrant groups, online harassment and the opportunities provided by strong communities. Lynn is Professor and Chair in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is also the author of “The parent app: Understanding families in a digital age”, a book also recently reviewed on this blog
Keep it Classy': Grindr, Facebook and Enclaves of queer privilege in India
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Introduction: Digital Youth and Religion
No full textPublic and academic discourse on the online activities of youth have been stormy and ambivalent at times (Lynn Schofield Clark 2013) [...
Media in the Lives of Young Adults: Implications for Religious Organizations
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Youth, Media Activism, and Communication Counterpower: A Comparative Study
No full textAround the world, young people are leveraging new media to engage with civic and political issues outside the confines of traditional public institutions (e.g. voting). This shift seemed initially to signal enormous potential for democratic renewal globally, with the emergence of new political actors and new forms of political engagement. The Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, Black Lives Matter, March for Our Lives, and the Global Climate Strikes offer examples of the creative ways in which young people (and others) can use new media to share information, connect with peers, mobilize with goal of advancing their causes. But following the resurgence of authoritarian leadership in the Middle East and recent political events such as the 2016 U.S. election and the #Brexit campaigns, intense debates have arisen about whether social media use in fact is as likely to undermine as to advance democratic processes.
Social media use presents new opportunities for youth who were previously excluded from formal channels of political participation; but increasingly, these platforms subject youth to surveillance, censorship, and other forms of repression. In this project, I examine how politically active young people in democratic and non-democratic countries leverage social media to exercise voice in contentious politics.
My dissertation draws on in-depth interviews, social media walkthroughs, and surveys with 91 young media activists (ages 18-30) in two democracies (Canada and the US) and an authoritarian regime (Cambodia). In this dissertation, I develop conceptual and analytical tools to center the voices of youth—especially marginalized youth—that have been obscured by the traditional focus on public, institutionalized forms of participation. This research aims to contribute to emerging scholarship on youth and media activism, and to inform the development of initiatives that encourage young people’s constructive participation in public spheres.Culture, Communities, and Educatio
Constructing Public Spaces| Participants on the Margins: Examining the Role that Shared Artifacts of Engagement in the Ferguson Protests Played Among Minoritized Political Newcomers on Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter
No full textUtilizing ethnographic methods, this article explores how diverse young people at the margins of politics used social media in relation to the Ferguson protests. The article argues for the significance of what is termed artifacts of engagement, referring to the photos, messages, and other materials that signal political involvement and that young students of color shared with their peers through the social media of Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter. Shared artifacts of engagement and the affordances of the platforms through which they are shared are both found to be key to what Bennett and Segerberg (2013) term connective action, or the ways that individuals use social media as they personalize expressions of a movement’s goals and may therefore participate in larger efforts aimed at bringing about social change.
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