Youth media and agency

Bibliographic Data

ID2931440
AuthorsChelsey Hauge (University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume35
Issue4
Pages471-484
Publication date2014-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2013.871225
OpenAlexW1998784290
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited26

This article addresses how capacity is conceived of and understood in youth media/civic education programming, and how beliefs about agency, development, relationality and youth manifests in the discourses, programmes, and practices of organizations operating youth media programmes. Through attention to a youth media and development programme in rural Nicaragua, the article addresses a key gap in theorizing how capacity operates within discourses and related practices that constitute 'youth media' and, in particular, it critically investigates how youth media discourse rests on an assumed foundation where capacity is defined as agency, empowerment or voice. This article situates youth media production within modernist discourses about education, development and 'change', in order to re-conceptualize agency through a mobilities framework that more fully attends to the complex and affective moments in youth media discourses.Keywords: youthmedia productionagencymobilitiesNicaraguadevelopment Notes1. www.amigoslink.org.2. Video link: http://tinyurl.com/7ebka4g

Empowerment · Media literacy · Media studies · New media · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Youth empowerment · Youth studies · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Social Media and Politics · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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