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young people are a very digitally connected generation; youth are very involved in friendship-driven and interest-driven activities online.	

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young people are a very digitally connected generation; youth are very involved in friendship-driven and interest-driven activities online.	

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“(96 percent) of young people have home access to a computer that connects to the Internet…Seventy-eight percent send messages, share status updates, or chat online, and 58 percent share links or forward information through social networks at least once a week... On a weekly basis, roughly one-third of youth en- gage in particular interest-driven activities” (p.8)

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•	young people are a very digitally connected generation; youth are very involved in friendship-driven and interest-driven activities online.16 o	“(96 percent) of young people have home access to a computer that connects to the Internet…Seventy-eight percent send messages, share status updates, or chat online, and 58 percent share links or forward information through social networks at least once a week... On a weekly basis, roughly one-third of youth en- gage in particular interest-driven activities” (p.8) 

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•	young people are a very digitally connected generation; youth are very involved in friendship-driven and interest-driven activities online.16 o	“(96 percent) of young people have home access to a computer that connects to the Internet…Seventy-eight percent send messages, share status updates, or chat online, and 58 percent share links or forward information through social networks at least once a week... On a weekly basis, roughly one-third of youth en- gage in particular interest-driven activities” (p.8) 

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participatory politics represent an important portion of youth political activity as it is practiced today. 

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participatory politics represent an important portion of youth political activity as it is practiced today. 

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o   “41 percent of youth reported that they took part in at least one act of participatory politics, compared with 44 percent who took part in at least one act of institutional politics, and the 41 percent who reported voting (or, in the case of those not yet eighteen, who reported intending to vote in the future).* “ (p.13)

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young people who are most involved in interest-driven activities are also much more engaged in political activity. 

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young people who are most involved in interest-driven activities are also much more engaged in political activity. 

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“those with high levels of non-political interest-driven participation are more than five times as likely to engage in participatory politics as those with low levels of non-political interest-driven activities (2.2 participatory acts vs. 0.4 participatory acts)” (p.16)

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the role and possibility of networks in a digital era is different than the way networks operated in the past. 

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the role and possibility of networks in a digital era is different than the way networks operated in the past. 

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"While in the past our attempts at outreach through our networks were often bound by physical constraints—to those in our church, in our class, or on our block whom we see occasion- ally—today through e-mail and platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Twitter, participants have the opportunity to engage with, or at least send information to, a much larger group of people.” (p.18)

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Did the author(s) make any arguments that pushed you to expand thinking about your students and their lives with technology? 

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Did the author(s) make any arguments that pushed you to expand thinking about your students and their lives with technology? 

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As someone who still identifies as a “young person,” this pretty much confirmed what I have already noticed about social media. I follow my younger sisters and their close friends and they post a lot about social justice and current issues (some memes, some serious stuff). For example, I became aware about the situation in Yemen and Sudan through things that my sisters shared with me. They also shared guides to see which posts and which donation things were legit and not legit

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Did the author(s) make any arguments in which you disagree?

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Did the author(s) make any arguments in which you disagree?

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This isn’t so much a disagreement, but I would just like to add that many young people have a tendency  to get really enthusiastic and fired up about things they see online, and sometimes this can lead to White Savior Industrial Complex, as illustrated by the Cole (2012) reading we read for MCE this past Monday. (I wonder what this phenomenon is called for POC). Sometimes media, if it only shows a limited view of an issue, can lead to people not realizing the ways they are implicated in the oppression that leads to an issue and may not see how their actions can be harmful.

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Genres of participation refers to “modes of participation with media, not categories of individuals” (Ito et al, p. 36, 2010).

-       genres are used to describe the level of investments in media activity.

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-       “Hanging out” – terminology used to describe how young people create units of interaction that can utilize media

-       “youth mobilize new media communication to construct spaces for copresence where they can engage in ongoing, lightweight social contact” (Ito et al, p. 38, 2010).

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-       “Work-arounds” – terminology used to describe how young people develop methods to utilize media under the constraints of a system. Ie. School

-       “These work-arounds and back channels are ways in which kids hang out together, even in settings that are not officially sanctioned for hanging out” (Ito et al, p. 49, 2010)

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-       “Looking around” – this terminology is used to describe how students engage with media to develop skills of how to create focused searches

-       “searching represents a strategy for finding information and reading online that is different from the way kids are taught to research and review information in texts at school” (Ito et al, p. 55, 2010)

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There are many old assumptions that black and Latinx teens do not have access to technology because they come from low income families. However that is not the case anymore.

“The often resilient and creative media practices of black and Latino teens are not only dramatically remaking the digital divide but also disrupting decades-old assumptions about race, technology and participation in the digital world” (pg.19)

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Black and Latinx populations are asserting themselves into the digital world.

“Populations that were once figured as disconnected from the digital world are rendering such claims inadequate as they assert their own vision of life in the digital age” (pg.22)

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We can’t just hand computers how to students, we need to teach them to use them in a constructive way for social and educational purposes.

“It is no longer simply enough to provide young people access to computers and the Internet; they also need access to the resources- social and educational; and opportunities that develop the skills dispositions that are associated with more dynamic forms of tech adoption and engagement” (pg. 25)

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Although teens can figure out how to access the digital world, it is still unclear about how they are participating in a more diverse and sustainable way.

“Our research suggests that teens from resource-constrained environments navigate a world in which access to hardware (a computer or smartphone) has improved, but access to the forms of capital (social and cultural) that support more diverse and sustained forms of participation in the digital world remains elusive” (g. 49)

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1. The value of social media to teens from aiding them create, maintain, develop, and grow friendships with their peers.
Social media has been widely used by teens in today’s generation. Almost everyone has at least signed up for Facebook, or Myspace during the early 2000s as eighteen-year-old Skyler Sierra told her mother, “if you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist.” (p.79) Back before social media was introduced, teens talk to each other or hang out at the bus stop, a park, or talk on the phone. Today, social media is a different platform for teens to be able to hang out with their peers.

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2. Adults — parents, teachers, or media-technology makers — consigned to the role of provisioning and monitoring teens’ social media rather than being considered as co-participants.
With the growing number of teens heavily influenced by technology and online platforms, a lot of adults, especially parents, are now facing challenges on how to effectively monitor their teens’ behavior, interactions, and time consumed in social media. Adults, comprising of mainstream media, law enforcement, teachers, and parents are concerned; they reinforce the message that interacting with strangers online is risky (p.91). These teens may experience unwanted sexual solicitations and may engage in explicit sexual behaviors.

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3. Social media can serve as teenagers’ primary source of identities and affiliations.
Nowadays, youth in America may have already been exposed to social media, and may already have their first mobile device around the time beginning their transition into adolescence. Going back to Erikson’s Theory of Identity versus Role Confusion, this stage of a kid’s life is crucial because this is the time where adolescents explore their independence and develop a sense of self. Social media may have a huge impact on this stage of development through social comparison, self-disclosure, and impression management. All that was mentioned can affect the teens’ behaviors, either in a positive and negative way. Even though teens are able to display new dimensions of themselves, they also may have their self-representations reframed by others in a public way (p.114)

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4. Cyberbullying can be a product of social media-use among teens.
Even though social media can positively affect adolescents through maintaining friendships, they are also used to seek attention and generate drama (p. 104). During this stage of development, along with the physical and hormonal changes going on through a teenager’s body, these teens rely on the opinions of other people for validation, making them more prone to insecurities. That is why often the motivation behind seeking attention in social media is to relieve insecurities about popularity and friendship. While teen dramas are only one component of friendship, they often are made extremely visible by social media. These acts may be normal for a growing adolescent, but if not solved, it may be considered as acts of bullying.

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Social media parental monitoring is indeed helpful; however, I don’t think adults should be spying or browsing through the teens’ social media accounts or read their text messages. In my opinion, adolescents should be able to learn how to manage their social media accounts and be responsible with what they’re browsing and who they’re talking to online. Adults, like parents and teachers like me, have duties to educate these kids about how to be well-behaved digital citizens, just like how we’re responsible for teaching them how to behave appropriately outside the technological world. In addition, adolescents these days are more knowledgeable about technology compared to their parents. Therefore, they will easily find ways to hide their online activities if they would want them hidden from the adults. In this case, if the kids find out that they’re being monitored online, their relationship towards their parents (or teachers) will be affected, and they will no longer be able to comfortably open up to them.

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-       “geeking out” – Terminology used to describe how students have a focus on a particular interest and they will use media to support their knowledge growth in that particular area

“kids who geek out on their interests and develop reputation and expertise within specialized knowledge communities” (Ito et al, p. 67, 2010).