BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//128.200.235.219//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:DML2015 X-WR-CALDESC:Equity by Design X-FROM-URL:http://dml2015.dmlhub.net X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-11254@dml2015.dmlhub.net DTSTAMP:20170323T214150Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CE/Youth Civic Engagement CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
12527 Ind Talk CE:First in our Families: Digital Sto
rytelling and First Generation College Students
\nOrganizer:
Jane Van Galen
This talk reports on a study that explores digital storytelling and social media as a means of enabling greater voice\, visi bility\, equality\, and agency for First Generation College students in th e U.S. In digital storytelling workshops held at four campuses across the country\, marginalized students crafted first-person stories weaving image s\, video\, sound\, and silence to craft multimedia pieces about pride\, g rowth\, resilience\, anger\, tenacity\, doubt\, shame\, and discovery as t hey navigate the economic\, cultural and social barriers to access to high er education.
\nWorking at the intersections of art\, sociology\, de mocratic education and storytelling\, participants collaboratively re-exam ined their own narratives of educational success as they developed counter -narratives to the deficit-laden language of much of the academic literatu re on First Generation students.
\nStudents then screened their digi tal stories at public campus events and disseminated them via social media and a project website. As these stories name the political\, emotional\, and intellectual work of claiming one’s place in college against barriers placed in their way\, we are inviting all stakeholders to imagine new mean s for making college more inclusive.
\nFinally\, each storyteller wa s interviewed about how writing and mediating a personal narrative of Bein g First affected their sense of agency and identity and their contribution s to broader discourse about equity in college.
\nIn screening two s tories followed by open discussion\, this talk with examine digital storie s as mediated authoring within contested social and cultural spaces.
\nThis project is a partnership between a university faculty member locat ed on the west coast (who facilitates the workshops) and a national non-pr ofit focused on eradicating class barriers and class privilege\, headquart ered in Boston.
\n12582 Ind Talk CE: Young British Muslims\,
Youth Media\, and ‘Justice-Oriented’ Citizenship
\nOrganize
r: Alicia Blum-Ross
Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with participatory filmmaking projects for young people in London\, this short presentation explores the competing understandings of ‘citizenship’ that emerged within an initiative for young British Muslims. Funded by the UK government’s ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ program\, this media produ ction project was conceived around a normative concept of ‘participatory c itizenship’ (Westheimer and Kahne 2004) in which the young people were inv ited to take part in pre-sanctioned civic pathways. Instead\, some of the participants chose to act as ‘justice-oriented’ citizens (ibid) in providi ng a challenge to the very premise of the project itself by exploring form s of protest outside of the formal political process. This included\, in t heir final film\, a discussion about the rationale for joining the armed j ihad and whether this can be conceived of as legitimate a form of protest.
\nHere I argue that participatory media offer distinctive technical \, social and creative affordances through which possibilities for civic e ngagement can be explored. However\, this case study underscores the ways in which youth media projects are discursively positioned within funding r egimes and oriented towards audiences that privilege specific forms of sto rytelling and youth subjectivity. This example demonstrates the potential for youth media to offer young people an opportunity to ‘speak truth to po wer\,’ but also evidence for the potential pitfalls for such a process.
\n12777 Ind Talk CE: I\, Too\, Am Here: Digital Youth Challeng
ing Racial Microaggressions
\nOrganizer: Diana Lee
L aunched in March 2014\, “I\, Too\, Am Harvard” is a photo campaign featuri ng portraits of over 50 black and mixed race students at Harvard College h olding up dry-erase boards with handwritten examples of racist comments\, microaggressions\, talk-balk messages\, quotes\, and other responses to di fficult interpersonal and institutional interactions they’ve experienced a s students at Harvard College. This powerful youth-created and youth-led c ounter-narrative challenges complex issues such as post-racial ideologies\ , tokenism\, the myth of meritocracy\, color blindness\, devalued and dism issed perspectives\, stereotypical exchanges\, and other problematic every day interactions. The campaign deeply resonated with many people and rapid ly spreading across the Internet\, inspiring minority students on over 30 campuses across the country and world to create and share similar projects \, and even garnered the attention of the White House.
\nThis is jus t one example of connected young people harnessing the power of social med ia to shed light on the kinds of institutionalized and interpersonal racis m people of color face on a daily basis. Young people are increasingly usi ng the Internet – through blogs\, spoken word and satirical performance vi deos\, hashtags\, social media movements\, and more – to connect and organ ize online and offline\, using whatever tools and resources they have to a ctively participate in their world\, including challenging\, learning\, an d teaching about race in the U.S. and beyond.
\nHow can educators an d researchers understand and highlight these engagements and what can be d one to foster their educational and empowering potential?
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