Book Chapter

Youth‐Generated Media

Khalil, Joe F.

2014

Overview

This chapter debates the relationship between youth and media by focusing on communication for social change and gives readers a sense of the history, development, and central concepts of youth‐generated media. It offers a comprehensive framework for understanding young people's self‐expressive artifacts. The first section of the chapter offers a historical trajectory concerning the study of youth and media. The second section proposes an explication of the concept of youth‐generated media as developed by young people themselves, and juxtaposed to youth‐oriented media. The third section proposes two broad conceptual approaches to youth‐generated media: a “sponsored‐development” approach with a relatively dominant adult involvement and an “organic” approach with youth taking charge of their own media production. The fourth section offers brief illustrative case studies from the Arab Spring. The chapter concludes by highlighting the utility of the concept of youth‐generated media and the challenges in understanding and interpreting young people's activities.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subject: Arab Spring / organic/grass‐roots approach / social change / sponsored‐development approach / youth‐generated media / youth‐oriented media
• ISBN: 9781118505311, 111850531X