Young People and the Future of News
Title | Young People and the Future of News PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Schofield Clark |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1108121357 |
Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social media rather than produced and circulated solely by professional news organizations. The book introduces the concept of connective journalism, clarifying the role of creating and sharing stories online as a key precursor to collective and connective political action. At the center of the story are high school students from low-income minority and immigrant communities who often feel underserved or misrepresented by mainstream media but express a strong interest in politics and their communities. Drawing on in-depth field work in three major urban areas over the course of ten years, Young People and the Future of News sheds light on how young people share news that they think others should know about, express solidarity, and bring into being new publics and counter-publics.
Young People and the Future of News
Title | Young People and the Future of News PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Schofield Clark |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1107190606 |
This book examines youth media practices on social media, introducing the concept of connective journalism as a precursor to collective political action.
Young Adults and the Future of Newspapers
Title | Young Adults and the Future of Newspapers PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Lynn Adkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Media literacy |
ISBN |
Parenting for a Digital Future
Title | Parenting for a Digital Future PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia Livingstone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0190874694 |
"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with diverse parents, this book reveals how digital technologies give personal and political parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, or support. The book reveals the pincer movement of parenting in late modernity. Parents are both more burdened with responsibilities and charged with respecting the agency of their child-leaving much to negotiate in today's "democratic" families. The book charts how parents now often enact authority and values through digital technologies-as "screen time," games, or social media become ways of both being together and setting boundaries. The authors show how digital technologies introduce both valued opportunities and new sources of risk. To light their way, parents comb through the hazy memories of their own childhoods and look toward varied imagined futures. This results in deeply diverse parenting in the present, as parents move between embracing, resisting, or balancing the role of technology in their own and their children's lives. This book moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research in the United Kingdom, the book offers conclusions and insights relevant to parents, policymakers, educators, and researchers everywhere"--
Tuned Out
Title | Tuned Out PDF eBook |
Author | David T. Z. Mindich |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195161408 |
Illuminating the decline in informed citizenship, "Tuned Out" is an insightful exploration of the generations of Americans who have turned their backs on serious news.
Millennials, News, and Social Media
Title | Millennials, News, and Social Media PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Maurie Poindexter |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Electronic news gathering |
ISBN | 9781433150036 |
Five years after the first edition of Millennials, News, and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past? was published, a focus on the Millennial generation's relationship with news is more important than ever. This revised and updated book reports the results of a new survey that reveals changes in news consumption habits and attitudes while painting a detailed portrait of Millennials in a news media landscape now dominated by social media and mobile devices. Generational, racial, ethnic, and gender differences in news engagement and social media use are examined and so is the historic presidential election that the oldest and youngest Millennials experienced. How Millennials voted, the issues that mattered, and the relationship between their political identity and news is also explored. The spread of fake news, attacks on the press, and the need for news literacy are also discussed. Since the publication of the book's first edition, Snapchat and digital subscriptions have emerged and social media sites have become popular platforms for news. How Millennials have responded to these changes in the media landscape is also examined. Finally, recommendations for further improvement of news coverage of Millennials are proposed. Plus, the book underscores how all segments of society, including news organizations, journalism schools, and tech companies, can work toward a more informed and news literate society, a requirement for viable democracies. This revised and updated book will appeal to students, scholars, journalists, and everyone who cares about informed and civically engaged citizens and a strong democracy.
Hard Landings
Title | Hard Landings PDF eBook |
Author | Cammie McGovern |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-08-24 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0525539050 |
A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age. After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have. Here, McGovern expands on her #1 New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism," a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing--and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. She asks the tough questions: What should parents prioritize as they ready their children for adulthood? How do we redefine success for our children? How can we sustain a hopeful attitude while navigating one obstacle after another? As Ethan makes his way into the world, McGovern also looks into the hardest question of all: How can we ensure an independent future when we're gone? Hard Landings will serve as a renewed beacon of hope for parents who want to ensure the fullest life possible for their child's future.