Youth Media as Method and Message: Participatory Approaches Toward Educational Equity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Youth media-makers have long contributed to our understanding of educational inequities through their creative and critical productions. Youth have showcased their perspectives on social and educational injustices through digital stories (Hull & Nelson, 2005; Jocson, 2017), online advocacy (Jenkins et al., 2016), radio productions (Soep & Chávez, 2010), and TikTok videos (Literat, 2021). Frequently, researchers present youth’s media at conferences and in publications without participation from their youth counterparts. To disrupt this commonplace, this symposium centers youth media-makers by taking an innovative, dialogic approach and positioning them as panelists alongside university researchers. Youth collaborators in four participatory research projects will describe their processes and purposes for creating media and how and why they foreground education and justice within their productions.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Media, Culture, and Learning

Chair

• Bethany Monea, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• "We All Run This Station": Considering How Kid DJs Advocate for Change Through Community Radio - Cassie J. Brownell, University of Toronto

• Global Youth Arts Collaborative: Participatory Theater for Racial Justice and Health Equity Education - Jasmine L. Blanks Jones, Johns Hopkins University

• Cyborg Speculative Fabulation: Youth Transmedia Practice as World-Making - José Ramón Lizárraga, University of Colorado - Boulder; Arturo Cortez, University of Colorado - Boulder

• LatiNXT GEN: A YouTube Series About the Transition to College by First-Gen, Latinx Youth - Bethany Monea, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Limarys Caraballo, Teachers College, Columbia University