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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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Digital Citizenship Education Handbook: Being online, Well-being online, Rights online
Key Guides

Janice Richardson, Elizabeth Milovidov

Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2022), 135 pp.

"The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of 10 digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good ... more

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TikTok Intifada: Analyzing Social Media Activism Among Youth

Laila Abbas, S. Shahira Fahmy, Mirna Ibrahim

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 287-314

"This study uses TikTok as a novel medium to extend the literature on online activism. It adds to the emergent body of knowledge about playful political participation among youth. It also explores how creative micro-videos can be a force to create momentum and shape opinions around social and politi ... more

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Guide de l'UNICEF pour le plaidoyer des jeunes

UNICEF (2022), 87 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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Empowering Youth in Africa Through Media and Communication: 2018 - 2022

Dakar: UNESCO Office Dakar and Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (2022), 15 pp.

"The project "Empowering young people in Africa through media and communication" aims to build media professionals' capacities, both men and women, in the treatment of information on various aspects of migration (irregular, legal, intra-regional, female, etc.), in order to guarantee public access to ... 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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Cookbook for Youth-Led Accountability

Daniel James, Willemijn de Bruin

Development Alternative (2022), 55 pp.

"This is a ‘cookbook’ full of ingredients to design and implement youth-led accountability initiatives. The content is based on research, evidence and learning documented on a programme called the Development Alternative, a consortium of youth and international development organisations that cam ... more

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Climate Change: New Evidence on How Media Can Engage Youth to Take Action

BBC Media Action (2022), 12 pp.

"In sum, this evaluation provides evidence that the Kembali ke Hutan (Return to the forest) project through drama, discussion show, and social media output can engage young Indonesians in topics that they previously were not interested in by breaking down the issues of deforestation in climate chang ... more

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Digitale Achtsamkeit: Handreichung für Lehrkräfte

Thomas Rudel, Michael Reder

Klett Mint; Barmer (2022), 20 pp.

"In dieser fächerübergreifenden Unterrichtseinheit werden die Schülerinnen und Schüler für das Thema digitale Achtsamkeit sensibilisiert. Sie sollen erkennen, dass es wichtig ist, selbstbestimmt und vernünftig über die Verwendung digitaler Medien zu entscheiden. Oft lassen wir uns von Emotion ... more

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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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Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (And Adults Are Missing)
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Emily Weinstein, Carrie James

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press (2022), 229 pp.

"What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults’ assumptions, they are not simply “addicted” to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their S ... more

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Youth Political Talk in the Changing Media Environment: A Cross-National Typology

Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Kaori Hayashi, Eugenia Mitchelstein, Mikko Villi

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 27, issue 3 (2022), pp. 589-608

"While political communication scholarship has long underscored the importance of political talk—casual conversations about news and politics that occur in everyday situations— as a way for citizens to clarify their opinions and as a precursor for political engagement, much of this literature te ... more

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Empowering Yemeni Youth Towards Peace: Ensuring Access to Information and Participation

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 64 pp.

"UNESCO strived to improve access to information for Yemeni youth through building capacities of young Yemeni journalists to produce content that ensures balanced coverage of the peacebuilding process. The produced content necessitated the development of an information platform to disseminate messag ... 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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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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Adolescent Digital Inclusion

Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Nicola Jones, Agnieszka Malachowska, Taghreed Alabbadi, Sarah Alheiwidi, Faisal Alshammari, Wafa Amaireh, Qasem Ashareef

London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) (2022), 11 pp.

"In response to this broader global context, the GAGE Jordan team developed a set of qualitative research tools to explore the experiences of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to digital inclusion, with a focus on young people affected by forced displacement. These tools aim to ex ... more

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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

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No Habit, no Listening. Radio and Generation Z: Snapshot of the Audience Data and the Business Strategy to Connect with It

Francesc Robert-Agell, Santiago Justel-Vázquez, Montse Bonet

Profesional de la Información, volume 31, issue 5: e310515 (2022), 18 pp.

"This article describes the most comprehensive study of the relationship between Generation Z and radio carried out in Spain to date, broadening the focus beyond data known from previous research and offering a structural view of the market from the perspective of media economics. An in-depth analys ... more

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The ‘#tag Generation’: Social Media and Youth Participation in the 2019 General Election in Nigeria

Oluwasola Festus Obisean

Africa Development, volume 47, issue 2 (2022), pp. 107-145

"This article examines the roles of social media on youth’s political participation in the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria. It interrogates the roles played by these communication tools in the emancipation and agency of youths while revealing the double-edged implications the devices may have on ... more

Digital Citizenship Education Handbook: Being online, Well-being online, Rights online Key Guides

Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (And Adults Are Missing) Deep Insights

Digital Citizenship Education Handbook: Being online, Well-being online, Rights online
Key Guides

Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (And Adults Are Missing)
Deep Insights