Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education

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Korina M. Jocson examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories, showing how educators can harness the power of youth media to provide new opportunities for meaningful learning. Describing the impact that youth media can have on the broader culture, Jocson demonstrates how it supports expansive literacy practices and promotes civic engagement, particularly among historically marginalized youth.

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"Korina M. Jocson synthesizes her work in an impressive piece of scholarship that helps us see how youth media production experiences support adolescent development, enhance learning in the content areas, promote creativity and self-expression, and advance appreciation for democratic practices of self-governance and civic engagement. She is a talented writer, and her clear, accessible prose is matched by considerable strength as a theorist."Renee Hobbs, author of Discovering Media Literacy: Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School

Author Bio

Korina M. Jocson is associate professor in the College of Education at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies in and out of Schools and editor of Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility.