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- Title
- Youth Worx: increasing youth participation through media production
- Author(s)
- Hopkins, Liza
- Abstract
- The YouthWorx project is a recently established initiative in inner urban Melbourne that enables 'at risk' and marginalized young people to participate in community radio and in multimedia production. YouthWorx seeks to offer direct pathways from youth arts to skill-building, and to entice disaffected young people into more socially productive pathways, through the provision of high-quality media and multimedia training. Yet the effectiveness of media education in creating active participants in democratic society is difficult to assess. This article examines some of the broader thinking behind the linkage of youth, media, identity and citizenship, and considers the difficulties of implementing a workable evaluation of causal links between those disparate fields. It also reports on the findings of the media ethnography component of the initiative, as we track the first cohort of young people through the training program.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Journal of Sociology, Vol. 47, no. 2 (Jun 2011), pp. 181-197
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 1608 Sociology
- Keyword(s)
- Community radio; Disaffected young people; Media ethnography; Multimedia production; Youth; Youth media; YouthWorx
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- ISSN
- 1440-7833
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783310386827
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 The Australian Sociological Association.
- Research Projects
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Youthworx: youth media and social enterprise, Australian Research Council grant number LP0562169
- Peer reviewed
