Lynn Schofield Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 250012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Schofield Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn Schofield |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9795-3523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 49 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Centering the Chicana/o/x community in methodology and pedagogy for a HWCU general education curriculum
During the 2023-2025 academic years, 14 faculty members at a midsized private R1 university located in the Rocky Mountain West collaborated to create and teach liberal arts and social sciences courses introducing students to El Movimiento, the U.S. Chicano Movement that began in the 1960s and 1970s that significantly shaped the economic, political, and social historical context of our university’s area. Employing a case study methodology, this ar…
We Know About Things Too
Online youth civic engagement programs are often designed to support the cultivation of youth voice, yet working with youth of color who are particularly skeptical of civic life takes a certain form of labor that often remains unexamined in the scholarship of youth civic engagement. Drawing on concepts of invisible, emotional, and relational labor and the work of critical race theory (CRT), this article examines what is often termed the 'labor of…
Tethered compliance
This article considers the roles that smartphones play as young people living in low-income communities navigate everyday activities, including those of online civic engagement. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during the COVID-19 lockdown, we offer empirical and methodological support for Hartmann’s concept of mediated mobilism , highlighting smartphone-related frictions and tensions that emerge at the intersections of social and political…
How Mobile Media Enabled and Limited Online Civic Participation Among Low-Income U.S. Young People During the Pandemic
This paper presents comparative research from two youth-centered interdisciplinary ethnographic research projects in media studies, social work, and education. Originally designed as in-person interventions meant to provide digital media literacy and civic leadership development activities for 35 Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Asian American and White young people between ages 15-20 living in low-income neighborhoods, the experience of the COVID-19 p…
The art of youthful restraint
Scholarship on youth digital media literacy programs has focused on how adults practice restraint as a means of allowing young people to exercise agency in decision-making experiences. Yet youth also practice restraint, as we found in a digital storytelling program involving 16 early adolescents (ages 11–14) from economically precarious communities who worked with 18 adult mentors trained in discussing systemic and racial injustices in the contex…
Employing media-rich participatory action research to foster youth voice
This chapter describes the design of the research project and the ways that young people experiencing situations of dis- and relocation, racism, and financial precarity came to be co-researchers who were involved in the collection, analysis, and presentation of data about relations between young people of color and police officers in their communities. It argues that rather than producing media and then later confronting the problem of assembling…
Studying Youth Online Political Expression
We are living through a highly politicized time, with deep divisions foregrounding the significance and importance of political expression and dialogue. Youth have been at the forefront of these important conversations, in both academic research and in the popular press. On the one hand, we are seeing a resurgence of activism and engagement among youth (Bond, Chenoweth & Pressman 2018; Deal 2019), who are using online platforms to express themsel…
Evelina Lundmark
How is atheism enacted as an identity in the contemporary U.S., and what difference has the emergence of digital spaces such as YouTube made in how this identity may be lived out and performed? These are some of the questions that Evelina Lundmark seeks to address in her groundbreaking work, This is the Face of an Atheist. This project, which represents the first interview-based attempt to understand the identity construction practices of wo/men …
The Routledge Companion to Media and Class
Advancements in digital technologies have set the stage for corporations in the Global North to drive down their labor costs by outsourcing work to the Global South. Burdened by employment woes such as infrastructural immobility and low wages, countless Filipino professionals, one of the largest suppliers of digital labor globally, are found to be migrating to online platform labor in exchange for autonomy, spatial flexibility, and the possibilit…
Digital survivance and Trickster humor
The decolonizing turn in the humanities and social sciences calls for scholarship that analyzes social media practices through the lens of Indigenous epistemologies. In this article, we model the ways that Indigenous epistemologies might contribute to theories of social media practices as we explore ways that the digital image can drive identification with and engagement in political acts. The article analyzes social media tropes circulated acros…
Routledge Companion to Media and Class
Digital Survivance
To explore the role of contestation in mediatization processes, this article utilizes digital and visual methods to analyze instances of Indigenous digital survivance. Focusing on recent examples at the heart of the #NoDAPL movement allows us to flesh out and argue for a decolonizing approach to the study of mediatization, which we define, following Clark (2011), as the process by which collective uses of communication media (1) extend the develo…
Early Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in the Age of Trump
Political elections have been shown to influence youth civic development. The election of Donald Trump is historic and has elevated precarity for people of color and immigrants, yet we know little about how young people with these identities experienced this potentially catalytic event. Using ethnographic methods, we examined youth and adult discussions that occurred during youth participatory action research in four sites of one after-school pro…
Social media and connective journalism
Based on a study of US high school students from predominantly working-class, immigrant backgrounds, this article illustrates how young people used social media to share personal opinions, experiences and news about environmental problems affecting their neighborhood, ultimately helping to change public policy. It reveals how the interpersonal connectivity facilitated by social media can create opportunities for youth voice and collective identit…
Young People and the Future of News
Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social media rather than produced and circulated solely by professional news organizations. The book introduces the concept of connective journalism, clarifying the role of creating and sharing stories online as a key precursor to collective and connective political action. At the cen…
Ecology
This entry explores the use of the word ecology within approaches to the study of media and communication, focusing primarily on a review of the school of thought known as media ecology. As media ecology is primarily recognized for its association with theories of technology's role in social change, the entry offers clarification on the relevance of media ecology and differing theoretical approaches to media and social and cultural change. The en…
The Media and Religious Authority
As the availability and use of media platforms continue to expand, the cultural visibility of religion is on the rise, leading to questions about religious authority: Where does it come from? How is it established? What might be changing it? The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to “brand” themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth…
Researching children, intersectionality, and diversity in the digital age
Research on children’s and adolescents’ experiences with media and technology over the past century has largely echoed the concerns of the middle-class and majority culture. We discuss scholars’ corrective efforts, particularly in recent years, in moving beyond these narrow foci to investigate how young people situated across social classes, racial and ethnic boundaries, and forms of disability engage with new media. In particular, we examine how…
The Media and Religious Authority
"Explores how modern means of communication are changing religion, and how contemporary mediations of religion challenge and refine the aspirations and prospects of religious authority"--Provided by publisher.
Participant or zombie? Exploring the limits of the participatory politics framework through a failed youth participatory action project
This article explores how “real life” stories of heroic participation might conform to, or challenge, hero myths. It involved engaging students of an urban high school in critiquing the hero myths of popular culture while also inviting them to tell and retell their own stories of participatory politics. The students' activities were followed over a period of an academic year as they worked through different ways of thinking about stories of heroi…
Religion Studies
This entry provides an overview of key scholars in the field of religion who have influenced communication theory and philosophy. It recognizes the importance of studying religion as a social dimension especially in relation to meaning-making, narratives, and ethics. It argues that the split between a mythic and comparative approach to religion also shapes the ways communication scholars view and make decisions regarding collective concepts in co…
Mobile Media in the Emotional and Moral Economies of the Household
Can Social Media be a Space for Democratic Inclusivity
This think piece invites readers to imagine what it might be like to seek a technological solution regarding the problems inherent within participatory democracy. The piece suggests that such a process must begin by first identifying the constraints to participation that are structured into society in relation to privilege, and then imagining how social media could be designed to play a role in addressing these constraints in order to work toward…
Mediatization
Mediatization is a theory. Or, perhaps more accurately, mediatization is a word that brings together scholars who are engaged in an international conversation about the role of communication technologies in relation to social and cultural change. The scholars who have contributed to this volume have been actively engaged in this conversation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyword…
Mediatization
Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age
This article describes the theory of parental mediation, which has evolved to consider how parents utilize interpersonal communication to mitigate the negative effects that they believe communication media have on their children. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this theory as employed in the sociopsychologically rooted media effects literature as well as sociocultural ethnographic research on family media uses. To account for the emotio…
Early Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in the Age of Trump
Political elections have been shown to influence youth civic development. The election of Donald Trump is historic and has elevated precarity for people of color and immigrants, yet we know little about how young people with these identities experienced this potentially catalytic event. Using ethnographic methods, we examined youth and adult discussions that occurred during youth participatory action research in four sites of one after-school pro…
Social media and connective journalism
Based on a study of US high school students from predominantly working-class, immigrant backgrounds, this article illustrates how young people used social media to share personal opinions, experiences and news about environmental problems affecting their neighborhood, ultimately helping to change public policy. It reveals how the interpersonal connectivity facilitated by social media can create opportunities for youth voice and collective identit…
Cultivating the media activist
The task of journalism education has been defined in relation to both the professional needs of the journalism industry and the need to educate well-informed citizens. A key part of journalism education involves introducing students to what Deuze (2005) terms the professional ideology of journalism, which includes commitments to public service, commitments to impartiality or objectivity, and a belief in the ideal of journalistic autonomy. Deuze h…
Ethnographic Interviews on the Digital Divide
Employing narrative analysis of ethnographic interviews with persons from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and racial/ethnic backgrounds, this article examines the discursive structure of the digital divide debate as it is articulated among contemporary online users and non-users in the United States. The article argues that the discourse of individualism serves as a filter that shapes and distorts all private and public conversations abo…
Introduction to a Forum on Religion, Popular Music, and Globalization
High school journalism and the making of young citizens
This article examines how involvement in high school journalism contributes to socialization into citizenship and, most crucially, to the development of a collective sensibility. Recent work by W Lance Bennett (2008), Zukin and his colleagues (2006), and Sara-Ellen Amster (2006) provides an interpretive lens for considering young people’s experiences with journalism and with citizenship. Interviews with 45 high school journalists from 19 differen…
Considering religion and mediatisation through a case study of J+K's big day (The J K wedding entrance dance)
This article reviews the strengths and weaknesses of Hjarvard's theory of the mediatisation of religion. By suggesting actor-network theory as a methodological approach to the study of the mediatisation of religion, this article proposes a case study of the viral wedding video, J K wedding entrance dance, to highlight problems with the assertion that the media are replacing or displacing religion's authoritative role in society. Drawing upon rece…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
In July 1979, the government of Canada issued a new policy which raised the quota of Indochinese refugees to 50,000 and introduced the one-to-one matching formula between privately and government sponsored refu? gees.1 Since the admission of the total target number of refugees was made dependent upon the prior initiative of civic groups to sponsor their share of 25,000, the private sector was, in effect, invited to enter into partnership with the…
Challenges of social good in the world of Grand Theft Auto and Barbie
This paper presents a case study of a community technology center (CTC) located in a lower income neighborhood of a high-tech city. Participant observation and interview-based research determined that while the CTC was popular among its targeted constituents, its use was not consistent with what the center’s supporters and policymakers envisioned. The emergent discrepancy between policymaker rhetoric and actual use is analyzed in light of differe…
Tethered compliance
This article considers the roles that smartphones play as young people living in low-income communities navigate everyday activities, including those of online civic engagement. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during the COVID-19 lockdown, we offer empirical and methodological support for Hartmann’s concept of mediated mobilism , highlighting smartphone-related frictions and tensions that emerge at the intersections of social and political…
Participant or zombie? Exploring the limits of the participatory politics framework through a failed youth participatory action project
This article explores how “real life” stories of heroic participation might conform to, or challenge, hero myths. It involved engaging students of an urban high school in critiquing the hero myths of popular culture while also inviting them to tell and retell their own stories of participatory politics. The students' activities were followed over a period of an academic year as they worked through different ways of thinking about stories of heroi…
Challenges of social good in the world of Grand Theft Auto and Barbie
Religion on the Internet
Journal Article Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises, Jeffrey K. Hadden and Douglas E. Cowan, (eds.). Vol. 8 in the Religion and the Social Order series (David Bromley, Series Ed.). Amsterdam/London/New York: JAI Press (Elsevier Science), 2000, 365 pp. $88.00 (cloth) Get access Lynn Schofield Clark Lynn Schofield Clark University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of…
We Know About Things Too
Online youth civic engagement programs are often designed to support the cultivation of youth voice, yet working with youth of color who are particularly skeptical of civic life takes a certain form of labor that often remains unexamined in the scholarship of youth civic engagement. Drawing on concepts of invisible, emotional, and relational labor and the work of critical race theory (CRT), this article examines what is often termed the 'labor of…
Mobile Intimacies in the Usa Among Refugee and Recent Immigrant Teens and Their Parents
Drawing upon semi-structured interviews and open-ended surveys with adolescents who have moved to the USA in the past twelve years, this article explores the nuanced ways in which expectations of authority and autonomy structure mobile phone use in migrant and refugee families. It finds that contrary to reports of US parents who fear that mobile phone rules and restrictions undermine intimacy, refugee families may view restriction as an expressio…
Religion, American Style
Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955–1993. By Sean McCloud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 269 pages. $49.95 (cloth). $29.95 (paper). Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. By Heather Hendershot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 256 pages. $27.50 (cloth). Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. By David Chidester. Berk…
Hollywood, Race, and the Demonization of Youth
Globalizing Popular Communication Audience Research
Globalization is a phenomenon and a process that has touched every part of life, demanding new ways of conceptualizing the relation between popular communication and audience practices. In this article, recent scholarship in popular communication audience studies and issues of globalization are reviewed. A consideration of recent developments in the study of popular communication audiences in the sister fields of anthropology and American studies…
Virtual worlds as a site of convergence for children’s play
Virtual worlds have made notable inroads into the lives of children, affording online extensions of their offline lives In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding the space that virtual worlds occupy in children’s play and the ways in which children’s participation in them overlap with their everyday play experiences, both offline and mediated. We argue that virtual worlds can be viewed as sites of convergence for childr…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
In July 1979, the government of Canada issued a new policy which raised the quota of Indochinese refugees to 50,000 and introduced the one-to-one matching formula between privately and government sponsored refu? gees.1 Since the admission of the total target number of refugees was made dependent upon the prior initiative of civic groups to sponsor their share of 25,000, the private sector was, in effect, invited to enter into partnership with the…
Hollywood, Race, and the Demonization of Youth
Controversy and cultural symbolism
Publicity for non‐mainstream events and alternative ideas may come primarily out of the controversy they produce rather than as a result of intentional public relations efforts. In the case reviewed here, we explore how what might be understood as a private conversation in mainline religion—a branch of religion that currently receives little publicity‐became one of the top religion news stories of the year. Examining the publicity surrounding a s…
Event and Publicity as Social Drama
Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Event and Publicity as Social Drama: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Conference 1995, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, Special Issue: Mass Media and Unconventional Religion (Dec., 1997), pp. 153-171
U.S. Adolescent Religious Identity, the Media, and the "Funky" Side of Religion
Television, film, and other forms of narrative fiction have often been understood as direct competitors to the traditional beliefs and values of organized religion. Not all people experience the media in this way, however. This article analyzes several cases in which stories of the afterlife, supernatural, and paranormal in the entertainment media become an important context through which contemporary teens understand religious beliefs. The study…
U.S. Adolescent Religious Identity, the Media, and the “Funky” Side of Religion
Television, film, and other forms of narrative fiction have often been understood as direct competitors to the traditional beliefs and values of organized religion. Not all people experience the media in this way, however. This article analyzes several cases in which stories of the afterlife, supernatural, and paranormal in the entertainment media become an important context through which contemporary teens understand religious beliefs. The study…
Religion on the Internet
Journal Article Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises, Jeffrey K. Hadden and Douglas E. Cowan, (eds.). Vol. 8 in the Religion and the Social Order series (David Bromley, Series Ed.). Amsterdam/London/New York: JAI Press (Elsevier Science), 2000, 365 pp. $88.00 (cloth) Get access Lynn Schofield Clark Lynn Schofield Clark University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of…
Challenges of social good in the world of Grand Theft Auto and Barbie
This paper presents a case study of a community technology center (CTC) located in a lower income neighborhood of a high-tech city. Participant observation and interview-based research determined that while the CTC was popular among its targeted constituents, its use was not consistent with what the center’s supporters and policymakers envisioned. The emergent discrepancy between policymaker rhetoric and actual use is analyzed in light of differe…
Challenges of social good in the world of Grand Theft Auto and Barbie
Ethnographic Interviews on the Digital Divide
Employing narrative analysis of ethnographic interviews with persons from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and racial/ethnic backgrounds, this article examines the discursive structure of the digital divide debate as it is articulated among contemporary online users and non-users in the United States. The article argues that the discourse of individualism serves as a filter that shapes and distorts all private and public conversations abo…
Globalizing Popular Communication Audience Research
Globalization is a phenomenon and a process that has touched every part of life, demanding new ways of conceptualizing the relation between popular communication and audience practices. In this article, recent scholarship in popular communication audience studies and issues of globalization are reviewed. A consideration of recent developments in the study of popular communication audiences in the sister fields of anthropology and American studies…
Religion, American Style
Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955–1993. By Sean McCloud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 269 pages. $49.95 (cloth). $29.95 (paper). Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. By Heather Hendershot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 256 pages. $27.50 (cloth). Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. By David Chidester. Berk…
Introduction to a Forum on Religion, Popular Music, and Globalization
Why Study Popular Culture
When the University Went ‘Pop’
This article examines why the study of popular culture has taken off as a subject of university course offerings and as a topic of scholarly inquiry since the 1980s. Placing the current explorations of popular culture in historical context, the article argues that popular culture's study and studies in the sociology of culture can illuminate many of the classic concerns that animate sociology and related fields, such as the social organization an…
The First Year Out
Digital Media and the Generation Gap
In many parts of the developed world, families engage with a wide range of communication media as a part of their daily lives. Parents often express mixed feelings about this engagement on the part of young people, however. Employing Baumberg's narrative-in-interaction analysis to interviews with 55 parents and 125 young people, this article explores both the discursive strategies parents employ when discussing their rules and regulations regardi…
Considering religion and mediatisation through a case study of J+K's big day (The J K wedding entrance dance)
This article reviews the strengths and weaknesses of Hjarvard's theory of the mediatisation of religion. By suggesting actor-network theory as a methodological approach to the study of the mediatisation of religion, this article proposes a case study of the viral wedding video, J K wedding entrance dance, to highlight problems with the assertion that the media are replacing or displacing religion's authoritative role in society. Drawing upon rece…
High school journalism and the making of young citizens
This article examines how involvement in high school journalism contributes to socialization into citizenship and, most crucially, to the development of a collective sensibility. Recent work by W Lance Bennett (2008), Zukin and his colleagues (2006), and Sara-Ellen Amster (2006) provides an interpretive lens for considering young people’s experiences with journalism and with citizenship. Interviews with 45 high school journalists from 19 differen…
Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age
This article describes the theory of parental mediation, which has evolved to consider how parents utilize interpersonal communication to mitigate the negative effects that they believe communication media have on their children. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this theory as employed in the sociopsychologically rooted media effects literature as well as sociocultural ethnographic research on family media uses. To account for the emotio…
Reflexivity in Data Analysis
Drawing from a large study of digital and mobile media use among US teens and their families, this chapter reflexively traces the way in which a particular research narrative about media use came into being. The narrative in question focuses on a young woman who engaged in extensive and troubling digital and mobile media use. Various stakeholders – university students, research assistants, members of the public, and members of various academic re…
Mobile Intimacies in the Usa Among Refugee and Recent Immigrant Teens and Their Parents
Drawing upon semi-structured interviews and open-ended surveys with adolescents who have moved to the USA in the past twelve years, this article explores the nuanced ways in which expectations of authority and autonomy structure mobile phone use in migrant and refugee families. It finds that contrary to reports of US parents who fear that mobile phone rules and restrictions undermine intimacy, refugee families may view restriction as an expressio…
Nick Couldry
Cultivating the media activist
The task of journalism education has been defined in relation to both the professional needs of the journalism industry and the need to educate well-informed citizens. A key part of journalism education involves introducing students to what Deuze (2005) terms the professional ideology of journalism, which includes commitments to public service, commitments to impartiality or objectivity, and a belief in the ideal of journalistic autonomy. Deuze h…
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