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Generation Africa - Guide de Facilitation

Yudhvir Ranchod, Elaine Maane, Marianne Gysae

Steps (2022), 76 pp.

"Le projet Generation Africa est basé sur des expériences vécues par la jeunesse africaine qui est la plus grande démographie de jeunes dans le monde et dont le futur va déterminer la forme que prendra nos sociétés sur les décennies à venir. La collection comprend 25 réalisateurs et socié ... more

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Youth and Independent Media in Jordan: Focus Group Findings

Jad Safwan

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation; D-Jil (2022), 6 pp.

"1. Digital media overshadowed offline media for several reasons. In Jordan’s case, trust was the primary factor and a reoccurring theme during the focus group discussions. Offline media was often associated with the status quo and therefore, inspired little to no credibility for the participants; ... more

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The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People’s Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis

Isabella Jackson, Siyi Du

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 194-218

"History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people’s understanding of their nation’s modern history, as revealed on the popular microblogging site SinaWeibo. We analysed ... more

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Youth and Independent Media in Palestine: Focus Group Findings

Jad Safwan

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation (2022), 8 pp.

"1. Social media is a key resource for news. A primary factor is its friendly user interface. It also acts as a “one-stop-shop” where users can shape the types of media they consume. This forms a stark contrast with offline media, which made little notable presence for attendees across all group ... more

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Mapping the nexus between media reporting of violence against girls: The normalization of violence, and the perpetuation of harmful gender norms and stereotypes. Evidence review

Lorena Fuentes, Abha Shri Saxena, Jennifer Bitterly

UNICEF; UN Women (2022), 66 pp.

"It finds broad consensus across the literature that mainstream news media outlets tend to make use of harmful tropes and stereotypes when reporting on cases of gender-based violence, and that this contributes to the normalization of violence and perpetuation of discriminatory gender norms and stere ... otypes. The key modalities considered in the scholarly literature relate to the visual and textual features of news stories, and the sourcing practices used by journalists. Studies highlight a tendency for mainstream news reporting to mirror and reinforce the dynamics that contribute to gender-based violence in the first place, such as victim blaming, decentring the responsibility of perpetrators, and deploying stigmatizing or sensationalizing language that draws upon harmful gender norms and stereotypes about women’s and girls’ ‘appropriate roles’. Overall, the effect of these reporting modalities is to direct the public’s attention towards the behaviour and actions of victims and to suggest that the transgression is in the violation of a gender norm, rather than in the exercise of violence. Evidence from the scholarly literature also highlights that incidents of gender-based violence are largely reported as episodic events or independent incidents of crime, that such reports deploy language that blames the victim by suggesting that she violated established or expected gender norms and rules, and that the level of sensationalism or ‘shock value’ in the case determines its ‘newsworthiness’. Evidence also suggests that reporters still largely neglect to include inputs from gender-based violence, women’s rights or child protection experts. Subsequent sections dig deeper into the evidence of the nexus between news media reporting of violence against girls and the normalization of that violence. This involves analysing some of the more common tropes and stereotypes that circulate in relation to victims and perpetrators, and providing illustrative examples of how these shape interpretations of gender-based violence and its victims. These tropes and stereotypes are also shaped by vectors of intersectional discrimination across regional contexts, and evidence highlights that media reports play a crucial role in reinforcing hierarchies by differentiating between ‘types’ of victims (where some victims matter, or matter more than others). Significantly, from the age analysis perspective, evidence from media reports also indicates that there is often an ‘expiration date’ after which girl victims may not ‘count’ as children. Specifically, sexualization in news media coverage of cases of gender-based violence can function as a mechanism to portray adolescent girls as adult women, and thus to obscure not only the gender dimension but also age-based rights violations at play. Notably, while this review identifies a burgeoning literature analysing the dynamics of media reporting on gender-based violence against women and how these relate to the perpetuation of discriminatory gender norms and stereotypes, there is a concerning gap in similar scholarly literature analysing these dynamics in relation to girls. Specifically, while there is a rich body of literature that includes gender and intersectional analyses of media reporting of gender-based violence, research that centres the age-related lens and analysis alongside the gender lens is relatively thin or nascent. The final section spotlights the range of existing frameworks and guidelines for promoting more gender- and age-sensitive as well as victim-/survivor-centred reporting. It notes that, while there is a relatively clear path forward in terms of what needs to be done to drive positive change, a pressing gap remains in how to incentivize and ensure uptake and implementation of these frameworks and strategies for more responsible reporting of GBV within and across media organizations and among media practitioners. This section leverages insights from stakeholders, as well as the literature, to flag additional ‘enablers’ that may be key to unlocking the potential within these existing frameworks. These include dynamics that may have more or less impact at scale, including the values and commitments of individual journalists, networks of feminist journalists and gender editors, the presence of strong feminist and women’s movements that mobilize civil society in response to cases of violence and push for greater accountability from the state and media organizations, and advocacy and engagement with local news organizations and media practitioners by international organizations. Reflecting on the evidence, the review concludes by suggesting that achieving the kinds of changes needed to enable more gender- and age-sensitive reporting will require a combination of formal and informal mechanisms, strategies, and long-term efforts and investments. These need to acknowledge that, even though gender norms and stereotypes are ‘sticky’ and take time to change, the vast sphere of influence of news reporting, and of the media more broadly, means that it presents a tremendous opportunity and entry point for catalysing positive changes in how gender-based violence against girls is represented, and thus how we as a society interpret and respond to it." (Overview, pages 7-8) more

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Specification Curve Analysis Shows That Social Media Use is Linked to Poor Mental Health, Especially Among Girls

Jean M Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Jimmy Lozano, Kevin M. Cummins

Acta Psychologica, volume 224, issue 103512 (2022), 11 pp.

"An important 2019 paper applied a novel analytic technique called Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the association between adolescent technology use and mental health/well-being. The paper concluded that an association exists but is ... more

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Guide de l'UNICEF pour le plaidoyer des jeunes

UNICEF (2022), 87 pp.

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Rostros de la violencia contra la niñez y adolescencia y sus determinantes sociales en América Latina y el Caribe

Paola Bedoya, Marcela Losantos Velasco, Natasha Morales

Bogotá: Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y Caribeño (CELAM) (2022), 89 pp.

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Trauma im Computerspiel: Mediale Repräsentationen mentaler Extremerfahrungen

Thomas Spies

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 322 pp.

"Über das Medium Computerspiel findet zunehmend eine Auseinandersetzung mit psychologischen Traumata statt. Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung, Krankheit und Tod sowie Depressionen und Phobien sind hierbei vorherrschende Themen und Motive. Thomas Spies zeigt in einem historischen Überblick und in ... more

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Dinámicas para prevenir conflictos en Instagram en el aula de la educación física

Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital; Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad (INCIBE); Internet Segura for Kids (is4k) (2022), 7 pp.

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Africa's soft power: Can Africa's creativity transform the continent? A summary of a nine-country survey

Natasha Kimani Rebecca Pointer, Moky Makura

Africa No Filter (2022), 16 pp.

"1. In all nine countries where youth were polled, more than 85% of respondents believed that arts and culture were an important part of their society. 2. Creatives are influential and admired:An average of 82% of all respondents respected and admired creatives in their country. 3. Young Africans ... did not believe it was possible to make a good living in the creative sector: Only 4% of respondents worked in the creative sector. Only 13% believed the creative sector was lucrative; 39% believed there were too many barriers to success and 21% said there was no money to be made in the sector. 4. Business and entrepreneurship are the most lucrative sectors: Most respondents (48%) believed that entrepreneurs and businesspeople have the most earning capacity, followed by professional sports people (23%). Nearly half of all respondents (48%) believed a traditional career in sport was seen to be more lucrative than a career in the creative industry: 23% of the respondents felt they would make more money from football or basketball compared to 13% who opted for music and film. Of respondents from Cote D'Ivoire, 45% believed sport was more lucrative, and South Africans (22%) and Kenyans (19%) perceived social media influencers as earning more than creatives. 5. Proving that Africa is a market for creative content, young Africans are consuming African films equally as much as US or international content: Most respondents watched films every week, whether local/African films (67%) or US/international films (66%). Among respondents who had watched between one and seven films, slightly more respondents had watched local or African films (57%) than international or US films (53%). 6. African writers are not writing for African audiences … and worryingly, many African youths are not reading for pleasure: Hardly any respondents had read a book in the month before the interview; 75% had not read any international authors, and 71% had not read any African authors. This indicates that African authors are not attracting an African youth audience. 7. Film is the most appreciated creative platform: Of all the creative art forms, respondents were most likely to have watched films, whether local/African (57%) or international (53%). 8. Respondents were not spending much money on creative outputs: Although respondents believed that arts and culture (85%) was an important part of society, few were spending to support the sector. In the creative sector, 78% said they either spent nothing or “very little” on arts and culture pastimes." (Key insights, page 1) more

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Mapping the Nexus Between Media Reporting of Violence Against Girls: The Normalization of Violence, and the Perpetuation of Harmful Gender Norms and Stereotypes

Lorena Fuentes, Abha Shri Saxena, Jennifer Bitterly

UNICEF; UN Women (2022), 66 pp.

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Lessons from France on the Regulation of Internet Pornography: How Displacement Effects, Circumvention, and Legislative Scope May Limit the Efficacy of Article 23

Neil Thurman, Asmik Nalmpatian, Fabian Obster

Policy & Internet, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-21

"In 2020, the French Parliament passed an amendment that put the country at the forefront of attempts by democratic states to restrict young people's access to legal online pornography. This study examines the necessity for and potential efficacy of the amendment, Article 23, through a comparative a ... more

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Overcome the Fear (Vencer El Miedo): Using Entertainment Education to Impact Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Parent-Child Communication in Mexico

Jorge A. Montoya, Aaron Plant, Deborah Neffa-Creech, Cecilia Orvañanos, Kriss Barker

BMC Public Health, volume 22, issue 2366 (2022), 12 pp.

"Adolescents in Mexico experience high pregnancy and birth rates. A collaboration with Grupo Televisa led to the development of an entertainment-education telenovela intervention, Overcome the Fear (OTF), which aired in 2020 to a national audience and addressed adolescent sexual and reproductive hea ... more

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Guia tá na rede! O que vira é navegar com segurança. Para famílias e educadores

Elaine Souza, Viviane Delgado, Carolina Nascimento

São Paulo: Viração Educomunicação; Projeto Consulta Brasil (2022), 51 pp.

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Jung, digital, unkonventionell: Nachfrage der 'funk'-Angebote steigt. Wie das öffentlich-rechtliche Content-Netzwerk seine Zielgruppe erreicht

Jasmin Eva Bien

Media Perspektiven, issue 7-8 (2022), pp. 364-374

"Seit 2016 bietet das öffentlich-rechtliche Content-Netzwerk 'funk' konfektionierte Inhalte für die junge Zielgruppe. Bekanntheit und Reichweite des öffentlich-rechtlichen ContentNetzwerks nehmen seitdem stetig zu. YouTube und Instagram wurden 2021 als Primärplattformen bespielt, da sie von 14- ... more

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Visions of Youth: Battling Myopia in Internet Regulation. How the Pakistani Youth Envisions the Internet in 2022

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF); UNESCO (2022), 48 pp.

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Media Usage and Political Trust Among Young Adults in China: The Role of Media Credibility, Trust in Sources and Political Membership

Qiong Gong, Marc Verboord, Yijing Wang

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 301-321

"On the basis of an online survey conducted among young Chinese adults, this study examines how the association between media usage and political trust can be explained by three factors: the mediating roles of the perceived credibility of traditional and social media; the moderating roles of trust i ... more

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Transforming Quality and Reliable Access to Information into Reality for Youth with Disabilities in Namibia

Ntinda Ruusa

Windhoek: Namibia Media Trust (2022), 19 pp.

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Resultados del “estudio exploratorio sobre brechas digitales de género en población adolescente en Perú”: Resumen ejecutivo

Alithu Bazan Talavera, Danna Duffó Chapilliquén, Martin Jaime Ballero

UNICEF (2022), 22 pp.

"En el Perú existen alrededor de nueve millones de adolescentes entre 12 y 17 años. De este grupo, se estima que el 92.9 % hace uso de internet para socializar, informarse, desarrollar pasatiempos y asistir a clases durante la pandemia. Según las estadísticas oficiales, la población de adolesce ... more