Youth Engaging With the World

The 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 mobilization, and for knowledge sharing.

At the core of this creativity and these innovative practices is media and information literacy. 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.

Content

Acknowledgement

Foreword

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

Setting the Scene

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

Memory and Identity: Youth Communicating for their Rights

Youth and Human Rights in Chile. Otherness, Political Identity and Social Change
Antonieta Muñoz-Navarro

Youth, Memory and Justice. The Cromañón Case and Communication in an Age of Precariousness
Florencia Enghel, Cecilia Flachsland, Violeta Rosemberg

From Pages to Pixels. Belarus’ Unique Youth Multimedia Magazine
Iryna Vidanava

The Power of Voice. North Koreans Negotiating Identity and Social Integration via Mediated Storytelling
Jiwon Yoon

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

Alternative Voices under Repression. Zimbabwe’s Youth Media Projects
Rashweat Mukundu

Young Voices Driving Social Change
Lise Grauenkær Jensen, Mette Grøndahl Hansen, Stine Kromann-Larsen

From Voice to Participation? Analysing Youth Agency in Letter Writing in Tanzania
Thomas Tufte, Aran Corrigan, Ylva Ekström, Minou Fuglesang, Datius Rweyemamu

“There Is No Permission to Love in Our Urfa”. Media, Youth Identities and Social Change in Southeast Turkey
Ece Algan

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

Media Portrayals of Youth Involvement in Social Change. The Roles of Agency, Praxis, and Conflict Resolution Processes in TV Programs
Peter Lemish, Elke Schlote

Contesting Norms on China’s Internet? The Party-state, Youth, and Social Change
Johan Lagerkvist

Critical Voices. Student Activism, Communication and Social Change in Zimbabwe
Nkosi Martin Ndlela

Ethical Challenges in U.S. Youth Radio Training Programs
Robert Huesca

Youth in Processes: Participatory Production

Participatory Communication Processes as Infusions of Innovation. The Case of ‘Scenarios from Africa’
Karen Greiner

Views in Progress, Views in Process. A Participatory Video Experience with Young People in a Space of Borderlands
Ana Zanotti

Learning to Change the World Right Here. Youth, Educommunication and Social Change in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Claudius Ceccon

Communication School for Children. Connecting Caves to the World
José Paulo de Araújo

The Authors