"Claiming the Digital Divide:
Perspectives on Global Youth Media & Social Change"
A panel held at the Academy for Educational Development
100 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor
New York City
Thursday, May 8, 2008
12:30-2:00 p.m. Light lunch provided.
RSVP by 4/25 to chelseyhauge@gmail.com
Claiming the Digital Divide aims to bring together youth media educators, academics, graduate students, and leading practitioners to discuss global and local youth media as it relates to social change and the field.
On a daily basis, young people enter and engage in dialogue about real issues affecting their lives with other young people using technology. There is energy in such virtual networking and information sharing and when expanded more globally, has the power to affect young people in ways that enable them to connect with international issues and social change. This is provides young people with a chance to connect around the globe—without ever having to head to the airport with an over-priced ticket.
Youth media organizations have created important pathways for young people to create global alliances, share commonalities in a local and global sphere, and gain access to new forms of technology. Such techno-social bridging addresses issues at the heart of youth media: access, global relationships, and young people's critical role in addressing local and international issues. We invite you to engage with the following panelists:
"Comparing Notes - U.S. and Colombian Youth
and Community Media Practices and Challenges"
by Diana Coryat, Founding Member of Global Action Project and recent Fulbright Scholar to Colombia.
"Global Youth Dialogue in Virtual and Networked Spaces"
by Shawna Rosenzwieg, On-Line Educator, Global Kids
"Telling Stories of Self: Learning about Race, Gender, Nationality and the Structure of Urban Schooling through Youth Produced Videos"
by Allison Butler, Ph.D. Media Studies & High School Media Teacher.
"Global Youth Journalism in a Web 2.0 World: New Opportunities and New Challenges"
by Anindita Roy, Director of Membership and Youth Media Programs, iEARN.
"Ideas on Inclusion: New and Old Media Tools in Youth Alliance Building"
by Chelsey Hauge, Graduate Student in Media Studies, The New School & Graduate/Media Intern at Youth Media Reporter.
Along with the audience, panelists will explore the various ways young people use media technology to connect locally and globally across traditional lines of difference (race, gender, sexuality, and geographical location).
Claiming the Digital Divide will include topics that range from:
the ways media is used to create alliances and international youth communities; and/or how youth access and connect to new media devices and spaces (social networking, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc);
how adults/academics can collaborate with young people in new media environments;
how young people virtually enter and engage in conversation about real issues affecting their lives;
alternative media communities;
the intersections of race/gender/nationality in youth media making; and
international youth media exchange.