"This article presents an ethnographic approach to how low-income Brazilians of impoverished urban areas have engaged in community journalism and media activism. Exploring empirical materials collected during a seven-year research process (2009-2016), the article has two main objectives. One is to a
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nalyze how low-income youth reflect on their own processes of engagement in communication for social change (CFSC). Another objective is to demonstrate how ethnography can provide in-depth analyses of trajectories and initiatives in CFSC. The article primarily focuses on retrospective accounts of young adults who had participated in media-educational projects by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and subsequently became active agents of change in, through and about media. The analysis of these accounts indicates how the participation in NGO projects characterize actions for self-development. It also demonstrates how interactions among participants–not necessarily anticipated by NGOs –are crucial for low-income youth to engage in activist media and journalism in peripheral Rio de Janeiro. The article ends with a reflection about how ethnography is a useful method to add in-depth qualitative layers to the evaluation of CFSC initiatives." (Abstract)
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"We trust this guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. We have compiled this guide based on our experience and learning in our youth radio projects across S
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outh Africa and the African continent. Young people are trained as youth reporters to record the stories and experiences of their peers and communities. Then they create radio programmes and host public events so that we all can learn, connect and make better choices for ourselves. The youth reporters use a guide that helps them understand the topic, choose a focus, research and build a radio show and community outreach. The process has been working really well, so we wanted to share the tools with you all. Perhaps you are already a youth reporter at a local radio station, a high school student, a member of a community-based organisation, a teacher, a librarian or you belong to an non-governmental organisation (NGO) - someone who believes in their community and wants to make a change. Well, this guide on how to conduct community outreaches can take you to the next level." (General introduction to the manual, page 2)
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"La presente cartilla es el resultado de un proceso largo de experiencia en el campo de la formación del uso pedagógico de la radio en la escuela. Nos complace muchísimo presentarla desde Grupo Comunicarte como una herramienta básica para construir ciudadanía, fomentar la participación, democr
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atizar la palabra, desarrollar las habilidades o competencias comunicativas, la lecto-escritura, generar procesos edu-comunicativos, pedagógicos y de interaprendizaje. La emisora escolar utilizada como un escenario para el diálogo, mejroar la convivencia, manejar los conflictos, hablar de la vida cotidiana de la comunidad educativa, donde se plantean propuestas que mejoren las relaciones y la calidad de vida de cada uno de los miembros de las instituciones, se constituye en un elemento pedagógico que atraviesa el Proyecto Educativo Institucional donde todos los proyectos se articulan y se fortalecen a través de la comunicación." (Presentación, página 15)
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"Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at child
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ren. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in key Arab countries have made local development and diversification of children's media more remote, it has become more urgent to gain a better understanding of how the next generation's identities and worldviews are formed. This interdisciplinary book is the first in English to probe both the state of Arab screen media for children and the practices of Arabic-speaking children in producing, as well as consuming, screen content. It responds to the gap in research by bringing together a holistic investigation of institutions and leading players, children's media experiences and some iconic media texts. With children's media increasingly linked to merchandising, which favours US-based global players and globalizing forces, this volume provides a timely insight into tensions between differing concepts of childhood and desirable media messages." (Publisher description)
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"This book is the perfect guide to aspiring storytellers as it illustrates the different manner of how and why stories are told, and how to make them "interactive." Storytelling features heavy game development as a method of storytelling and delivery, and how to develop compelling plots, characters,
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settings, and actions inside a game. The concept of digital storytelling will be explored, and how this differs from previous incarnations of mediums for stories." (Publisher description)
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"In 2014, South Africa’s democracy turned 20. Just like the young democracy is learning to find its feet, young citizens are negotiating the unknown territory of full citizenship rights while confronting a ‘totally different world than that of their parents’. Whether their parents were black a
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nd not entitled to full citizenship or whether their parents were white and therefore implicated in a system that withheld full citizenship from the majority of the population, young people do not have a template to draw on for meaning and form of citizenship in a new and liberated South Africa. This article examines political participation amongst young South Africans and their negotiated participation in both political and civic activities within the context of media use and consumption. Their paradoxical relationship with both politics and the media is detailed in an attempt to understand how to deepen a culture of meaningful citizenship amongst South African youth." (Abstract)
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"Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic space
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s." (Publisher description)
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"The concept of "mobile youth culture" is frequently used in the field of adolescent mobile phone research to refer to the distinctive ways in which youths around the world embed the mobile phone in their everyday lives. Little attention, however, has been devoted to its theoretical foundations. Dra
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wing from youth culture theory and new (mobile) media theories, this article conceptually develops mobile youth culture by (a) describing the commonalities in adolescent mobile phone use that constitute the culture, and by (b) discussing the origins of these commonalities through an analysis of the network, the social and personal logics inherent in mobile communication technology, and the way these are appropriated by youths to accommodate their transition to adulthood. The article concludes by pointing out the shortcomings of the concept: The limited attention for the heterogeneity in adolescent media use, the integration of mobile media technologies into young people's media repertoires, the cross-generational implications of mobile media use, and the impact of local context and culture." (Abstract)
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"In 2008, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) proposed some guidelines to radio broadcasters designed to activate the recovery of younger listeners. They did this after observing that radio’s penetration among the youngest sectors was in decline. According to this report, the key to halting this
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decrease was to join forces with the Internet, since the latter accounted for the main lack of interest in radio among this particular demographic, especially as far as music radio was concerned. The main focus of the guidelines was therefore on the online environment. What was recommended was that attention should be paid to website development and promotion with particular emphasis on the issue of interactivity. However, taking these steps might not in itself be enough to halt young people’s loss of interest in radio. Understanding and interpreting this disaffection also requires the use of methodological research tools—including the study of quantitative data provided by audience measurement companies, organisations that analyze the listening habits and expectations of young people. In this chapter, the methodological tools designed to address this communicative issue will be examined in some depth. The findings confirm that a new approach is needed for the study of radio audiences." (Abstract)
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"En Argentina hay más de 13 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNyA). 6 de cada 10 se comunican usando celular y 8 de cada 10 usan Internet. La tecnología atraviesa su existencia, impacta en sus modos de conocer, aprender, expresarse, divertirse y comunicarse. Para los chicos y chicas, los
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medios digitales son un modo habitual de comunicación y de interacción con el mundo. Construyen su identidad interactuando tanto en la vida “real” como en la virtual. Actividades como chatear, jugar en línea, buscar y compartir información y contenidos, son acciones cotidianas en sus vidas y, en definitiva, del ejercicio de su ciudadanía digital. Así, este estudio busca recabar información que permita obtener un estado de situación actualizado sobre el vínculo de los adolescentes con la tecnología, y generar evidencia para la toma de decisiones en las políticas del sector, especialmente las vinculadas con la ciudadanía digital de NNyA, la alfabetización digital y mediática y la concientización sobre el valor de un Internet sin riesgos y al servicio de prácticas positivas." (Página 6)
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"En 2015 los medios de comunicación registraron 286 femicidios. Entre ellos, 86 de las víctimas tenían entre 19 y 30 años y 39 eran adolescentes de entre 13 y 18 años. Resulta interesante analizar la contradicción entre la hipersexualización de niñas y adolescentes en el discurso y las imág
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enes habituales de los medios, el modelo de mujer que se les impone y el tratamiento posterior que reciben al ser víctimas de agresiones en las que suelen surgir diversos estereotipos. Con frecuencia el modo en que iban vestidas, por ejemplo, se puede transformar en un justificativo de lo que les ocurrió. Esto fue el disparador por el que decidimos centrarnos en este monitoreo en las adolescentes [...] Parafraseando un reclamo feminista, los medios insisten en enseñarles a las mujeres cómo deben comportarse y vestirse si no quieren ser violadas o atacadas de alguna otra forma, en lugar de condenar los comportamientos de los varones violentos y enseñarles a éstos que la violencia contra las mujeres no tiene lugar en nuestra sociedad." (Conclusiones, página 48)
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"El proyecto Videoteca de las Culturas de la Dirección de Diversidad Cultural y Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial, prioriza la utilización del medio audiovisual para generar procesos reflexivos y pedagógicos en niños, niñas y adolescentes . El lema del proyecto ‘Desde tus ojos, con tu
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voz’ plantea que a través del registro audiovisual propio, la ciudadanía, especialmente los niños, niñas y adolescentes de pueblos indígenas u originarios y población afroperuana puedan utilizar este medio para expresar su mirada, para comunicar su voz. El énfasis del proyecto está en reconocer la importancia que tienen la experiencia y subjetividad de las personas y colectividades que portan la cámara y que representan el mundo desde sus culturas. Así, el proceso audiovisual participativo puede aportar en la construcción de un ciudadano que desde su pensamiento crítico hace pleno ejercicio de su derecho a la comunicación. Al examinar esta posibilidad, debemos entender que los contenidos audiovisuales resultantes no son neutrales, siempre tienen un rol en la formación ciudadana. Es por eso que presentamos las lecciones audiovisuales para ciudadanos y ciudadanas interculturales, a partir de una selección de vídeos participativos y documentales que expresan la mirada y la voz de distintas comunidades afroperuanas, andinas y amazónicas de nuestro Perú. Proponemos estos materiales como disparadores de una reflexión y un trabajo que acerquen a nuestros estudiantes a la comprensión del nosotros peruano." (Presentación, página 4)
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"El estudio se ocupa de analizar la relación de los millenials con la tecnología desde diferentes ámbitos de interés de su cotidianidad, como el trabajo, la educación, el acceso a la información o las actividades de ocio, y presenta una serie de retos y oportunidades alrededor de cada uno de e
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stos escenarios donde son, cada vez más, influyentes y creadores de tendencias. Asimismo, se pone de manifiesto el imparable desarrollo tecnológico que hoy forma parte de todas las facetas de su vida y cómo los millennials continuarán aumentando su influencia con los años. En este sentido, son una especie de prueba piloto que nos ayuda a comprender el presente y nos ofrece pistas sobre lo que puede suceder con las generaciones futuras." (Contratapa)
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"Here we discuss a unique and innovative radio-based approach to improving mental health literacy and creating a demand for mental health services—part of a larger project called 'An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania'. Grounded in theories of so
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cial and behavior change communication and edutainment, and leveraging participatory methodologies, Farm Radio International and partners Teen Mental Health and Farm Radio Trust in Malawi worked with local radio broadcasters in Malawi and Tanzania to design and deliver weekly, interactive youth radio shows about mental health. Ongoing engagement with the content, and deliberation over the messages, was facilitated through SMS feedback mechanisms, and mobile polls and quizzes delivered through the radio stations, along with school-based radio listening clubs that met weekly to listen to the programs and discuss the themes in a group. Over the course of the 45-month project, the radio shows gained immense popularity, in large part because they talked about issues that are important to youth, and incorporated the language youth use and music they prefer. The programs attracted an average of 500,000 listeners each week, and received tens of thousands of text messages and Facebook posts by young people giving feedback, telling the radio hosts about what topics they would like to hear about, and asking questions about mental health or requesting to be connected with a mental health expert. The impact of the radio was measured according to whether and to what extent the interactive media programs play a role in triggering or facilitating drivers of the process of change. These drivers include bringing about improvements in knowledge and attitudes, mobilizing a social movement, and facilitating greater social and public support to put mental health on the agenda as a topic of conversation, grounded in new understandings and new knowledge. Our findings demonstrate that an interactive radio campaign can have a marked effect on improving knowledge, decreasing stigma, and increasing demand for mental health services among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Youth who listened to the radio programs fare better than their peers in understanding the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and in knowing where to go if they or someone they know needs help. Further, interactive radio programs can have a direct impact on reducing stigmatizing attitudes, frequently recognized as a crucial element in promoting improved access to care." (Executive summary)
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"The present report summarizes the results of a media use study that was conducted in autumn 2014 in the Ugandan districts of Kampala, Mbale, Lira, Pader and Gulu. The study consists of a quantitative survey of more than 650 survey respondents, as well as six qualitative focus groups with a total of
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45 participants. The target population was children and young people between 13 and 24 years of age. The results show that radio is still the most important medium in Uganda today. 94.6% of the participating young people from the aforementioned districts have access to a radio. There are, however, signs of a change in trend. Three quarters of the respondents also have access to a TV set, meaning television is no longer a minority media form in Uganda." (Executive summary)
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