https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao Please add your ideas below for your assigned reading. en-us 2019-07-14 05:12:41 UTC 2019-08-16 00:45:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028677 Black and Latino youth “spend more time using social media and mobile media than their white counterparts,” (p .21) ]]> 2019-08-11 21:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028677 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028844 Access to and time spent on digital media does not tell the whole story though. Greater time spent online “does not lead to greater digital media literacy …or …social and economic opportunity,” (p.21) The authors argue this information literacy needs to be addressed in school: “a more dynamic approach to digital literacy must also help students cultivate a questioning disposition that employs technology to practice innovation and problem solving,” (p.26) ]]> 2019-08-11 21:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028844 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028919 Online digital media provides a space to develop meaningful social interactions and problem solving skills. This is highlighted in the case study of Marcus and Miguel. “In school Miguel was reserved, quiet, and unassuming. Out of school he was actively involved in a virtual gamin world that required him to collaborate with strangers to problem solve…” (p.35) ]]> 2019-08-11 21:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028919 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028996 The “digital divide” was until very recently a tech access divide among socio economic lines. This has been broken down as black and Latino youth have rapidly taken to mobile media and use it at higher rates than other groups, however access is not always equitable and does not always equal literacy. “the adoption of the mobile Internet by blacks and Latinos provoked the popular view that the rapid diffusion of Internet-enabled phones did something that years of policy intervention could not do – bridge the gap between the technology rich and the technology poor. The implications for the adoption of the mobile Internet among black and Latino teens are complicated and obscure some of the challenges they continue to face in securing a more equitable Internet experience,” (p.39) ]]> 2019-08-11 21:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374028996 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374029006 When they talk about access to broadband and features of faster internet they relate this to socio economic status. While this is certainly true in cities, they are completely neglecting the reality in most remote parts of the country, where few people have access to broadband just because of their location. This has nothing to do with socio-economic status, and is purely because internet companies do not find it profitable to bring high speed service to sparsely populated areas. This is a real equity problem in Montana, Alaska and other sparsely populated places, even right here in Washington. I understand their failure to mention it since it is not the same context as their case studies, however I think it is a very important point to keep in mind. ]]> 2019-08-11 21:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374029006 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374208849 Participatory politics – defined as voicing and having influence over issues of public concern (examples included internet neutrality and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and other ways of giving feedback to leaders). “Peer-based and interactive.” (page vii and 3)

]]> 2019-08-12 23:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374208849 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374208893 The Internet can and is used to organize protests/sign petitions/etc. “... the potential for people – in particular, young people – to organize independently of elites and elite institutions using new media and social media platforms.” (page v)

]]> 2019-08-12 23:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374208893 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374208938  “Interest-driven” activities online lead to more engagement in political acts. Youth are “four times as likely to participate in all political acts” (pg ix) if they engage in interest-driven online activities (as of 2012) such as groups about “hobbies, games, and aspects of popular culture” (pg 17); the article attributes this to there being a wider range of opinions and experiences in these groups than you'd find in your immediate friends and families. This is also true of in-person extracurriculars. 

]]> 2019-08-12 23:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374208938 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374209005 This information is not opposing in person activism, canvassing, or other political engagement. Merely saying that it is a large part of life, and that youth who are engaged with political material online are more likely to vote and increases the feelings of being “qualified” to participate in politics, not only more interested (page 17). 

]]> 2019-08-12 23:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374209005 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374209060 This article was written in 2012 and paints a very rosy view of how people young and old participate in political discourse. It mentions three times that 84% of survey respondents said that people like them and their friends would benefit from learning how to tell if sources are trustworthy or not. However, that seems to be the most they talk about things like misinformation or slanted information. The Internet has become a safe haven for white supremacists, alt-right groups, "incels," etc., and is loaded with slanted information, misinformation, and outright lies and propaganda. I think this article is due for an update to address these things. ]]> 2019-08-12 23:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374209060 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676578 2019-08-15 03:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676578 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676596 Youth are growing up around and utilizing technology in a variety of ways that vary depending on a multitude of factors. Among these factors is socioeconomic status, as the article notes “Even youth who do not possess computers and Internet access in the home are participants in a shared culture where new social media, digital media distribution, and digital media production are commonplace among their peers and in their everyday school contexts” (pg. 30).]]> 2019-08-15 03:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676596 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676687 Technology and media ecologies reflect moments in time and are ever-changing. Even during the study, youth habits were changing to reflect new media. The chapter notes that during the study youth were becoming “regular viewers of short videos and television programs on sites such as YouTube” which is something that barely existed in my own media ecologies as a youth (pg. 46)]]> 2019-08-15 03:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676687 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676764 The three genres of participation noted in this chapter are “hanging out,” “messing around,” and “geeking out.” These three participation genres allowed the authors to investigate with a more holistic approach to how and why youth are operating in various media ecologies. This is done in a way that “emphasizes modes of participation with media, not categories of individuals.” (pg. 36). This approach allows the researches to make space for students changing and multiple identities.]]> 2019-08-15 03:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676764 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676797 Youth are using technology in ways that suit their needs and desires, which can mean breaking the rules of their parents or schools, illegally recording music for ringtones, etc. The chapter describes this as rewriting the rules within the geeking out category which “often involves an explicit challenge to existing social and legal norms and technical restrictions” (pg. 71).]]> 2019-08-15 03:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676797 https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676953 2019-08-15 03:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jennygaw/r8lfv4n58ao/wish/374676953