Youth Media Matters
Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education
Publication Year: 2018
In an information age of youth social movements, Youth Media Matters examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories about themselves and their social worlds. They do so through joint efforts in a range of educational settings and media environments, including high school classrooms, youth media organizations, and social media sites. Korina M. Jocson draws on various theories to show how educators can harness the power of youth media to provide new opportunities for meaningful learning and “do-it-together production.” Describing the impact that youth media can have on the broader culture, Jocson demonstrates how it supports expansive literacy practices and promotes civic engagement, particularly among historically marginalized youth.
In Youth Media Matters, Jocson offers a connective analysis of content area classrooms, career and technical education, literary and media arts organizations, community television stations, and colleges and universities. She provides examples of youth media work—including videos, television broadcasts, websites, and blogs—produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and St. Louis. At a time when educators are increasingly attentive to participatory cultures yet constrained by top-down pedagogical requirements, Jocson highlights the knowledge production and transformative potential of youth media with import both in and out of the classroom.
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Cover
Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgments
The moment I first fell in love with art making is a blur. A hobby that started out with a mediocre piece of drawing in my preteens turned into a serious study of photography and an appreciation for art-making processes. I did not know where photography would take me eventually. ...
Introduction: Youth Media Matters
Hues of blue and gray emanated from the screen. The room was dim. Three teens were watching a video while they hovered around a computer station, two standing up and one sitting on a chair. I couldn’t quite make out the video from the opposite side of the room as I had just walked in from chatting with a colleague in the hallway. ...
1. Assemblage in Content Area Classrooms
It was spring in East Oakland, California. The annual Digital Storytelling Contest’s theme had just been announced—Coming to California—and a mounting stir accumulated between Rooms 107 and 108, the ninth-grade social studies and English classrooms. Over the course of two months, the stir filled the hallways of the building ...
2. Critical Solidarity in Literary and Media Arts
Opening night of the Women of Color Film Festival at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. It was a little breezy and the sun was setting behind some eucalyptus trees. My heart was racing. As I walked across the university campus and approached the building, I became more anxious as I thought about what audience members might be asking at the conclusion of the screening. ...
3. Place-Making in Career and Technical Education
The sun was beaming through cirrus clouds. It was eighty degrees in St. Louis, Missouri. It had rained the night before, keeping the humidity level low. The eight fountains in the Grand Basin spouted synchronously. I was on Art Hill in Forest Park contemplating a conversation I had had with a teacher about students and person–environment relations in education. ...
4. Centrality of Pedagogy in the College Classroom
The semester began a bit on the rough side. I was slated to teach a course with a focus on new media literacies and yet it took three different classrooms to find the right one. My students and I shuffled every week for three weeks before we could decide which space would be conducive to the kinds of activities described on the syllabus. ...
5. Translocal Possibilities and the Politics of Media Making
“Have you seen the video? Have you seen it?” I blurted out from across the lobby of the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. “It’s been blowing up on social media!” Before I could say anything else, Tyrone Howard smiled and said, “Yes, that was done by one of my students.” I chuckled, having forgotten how small the world is. ...
Appendixes
About the Author
E-ISBN-13: 9781452955841
E-ISBN-10: 1452955840
Print-ISBN-13: 9780816691869
Page Count: 208
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Publication Year: 2018
OCLC Number: 1017755711
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