Meaningful Youth Engagement Through Media Usage

Media Usage ◽

Central Argument

Guided by the literature on youth engagement and media studies globally, this conceptual article examines the key engagement-related notions involving youth and media usage. A central argument of the article is that meaningful youth engagement can be considered a key concept in describing youth's use of hybrid media that reflects the diversity of youth populations and their media usage. Specifically, such media-involved youth engagement can be seen as an important meaning-making activity within youth's lives that can potentially build social and cultural capital, including through social relationships and youth-led political activism. Aligned theoretically with positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD) frameworks, this article suggests that youth's hybrid media usage can be seen as a meaningful youth-engagement activity that can provide opportunities to promote skills/competences leading to positive development, and to address human rights and other social justice issues in an empowered, meaningful way.

Using New Media for Citizen Engagement and Participation - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

Centrality of Youth Engagement in Media Involvement

10.4018/978-1-7998-1828-1.ch005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 81-96

Author(s):

Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Cultural Capital ◽

Public Involvement ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Youth Engagement ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Media Usage ◽

Contextualized within the popularity of new media, youth engagement is a very important concept in the practice of public involvement. Guided by the current literature on youth engagement and media studies, this chapter examines the key engagement-related notions involving youth and media usage. Being informed by a variety of case studies on youth engagement through the use of media within various contexts globally, the chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges of engaging youth through media involvement. The specific notions covered in this chapter include (1) the role of “hybrid” media in youth engagement, (2) “intersectionality” illustrating the diversity of youth populations and their media usage, (3) meaning-making through media involvement among youth, and (4) building global social relationships and social and cultural capital through youth's media usage. Importantly, the use of new media can be seen as a means of reclaiming and reshaping the ways in which youth are engaged, as key meaning-making processes, to address personal, social, and cultural issues.

Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

Youth Engagement in the Era of New Media

10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 90-105

Author(s):

Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Cultural Capital ◽

Public Involvement ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Youth Engagement ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Media Usage ◽

Contextualized within the popularity of new media, youth engagement is a very important concept in the practice of public involvement. Guided by the current literature on youth engagement and media studies, this chapter examines the key engagement-related notions involving youth and media usage. Being informed by a variety of case studies on youth engagement through the use of media within various contexts globally, the chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges of engaging youth through media usage. The specific notions covered in this chapter include: 1) the role of “hybrid” media in youth engagement; 2) “intersectionality” illustrating the diversity of youth populations and their media usage; 3) meaning-making through media usage among youth; and 4) building global social relationships and social and cultural capital through youth's media usage. Importantly, the use of new media can be seen as a means of reclaiming and reshaping the ways in which youth are engaged, as key meaning-making processes, to address personal, social, and cultural issues.

Centrality of Youth Engagement in Media Involvement

10.4018/978-1-6684-3706-3.ch042 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 789-804

Author(s):

Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Cultural Capital ◽

Public Involvement ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Youth Engagement ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Media Usage ◽

Contextualized within the popularity of new media, youth engagement is a very important concept in the practice of public involvement. Guided by the current literature on youth engagement and media studies, this chapter examines the key engagement-related notions involving youth and media usage. Being informed by a variety of case studies on youth engagement through the use of media within various contexts globally, the chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges of engaging youth through media involvement. The specific notions covered in this chapter include (1) the role of “hybrid” media in youth engagement, (2) “intersectionality” illustrating the diversity of youth populations and their media usage, (3) meaning-making through media involvement among youth, and (4) building global social relationships and social and cultural capital through youth's media usage. Importantly, the use of new media can be seen as a means of reclaiming and reshaping the ways in which youth are engaged, as key meaning-making processes, to address personal, social, and cultural issues.

Youth Engagement in the Era of New Media

Socio-Economic Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 90-105

Author(s):

Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Cultural Capital ◽

Public Involvement ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Youth Engagement ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Media Usage ◽

Contextualized within the popularity of new media, youth engagement is a very important concept in the practice of public involvement. Guided by the current literature on youth engagement and media studies, this chapter examines the key engagement-related notions involving youth and media usage. Being informed by a variety of case studies on youth engagement through the use of media within various contexts globally, the chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges of engaging youth through media usage. The specific notions covered in this chapter include: 1) the role of “hybrid” media in youth engagement; 2) “intersectionality” illustrating the diversity of youth populations and their media usage; 3) meaning-making through media usage among youth; and 4) building global social relationships and social and cultural capital through youth's media usage. Importantly, the use of new media can be seen as a means of reclaiming and reshaping the ways in which youth are engaged, as key meaning-making processes, to address personal, social, and cultural issues.

The role of youth engagement in positive youth development and social justice youth development for high-risk, marginalised youth

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth ◽

10.1080/02673843.2015.1067893 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 267-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

High Risk ◽

Youth Development ◽

Youth Engagement

Effects of Social and Cultural Capital on the Positive Development of Katrina Survivors

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e639202009-001 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Daisy R. Jackson ◽

Jacqueline Matis ◽

Carolyn R. Watson

Keyword(s):

Cultural Capital ◽

Positive Development ◽

Social And Cultural Capital

Anti-Black Racism and Historical Trauma: Pushing the Positive Youth Development Paradigm

Youth & Society ◽

10.1177/0044118x211007883 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0044118X2110078

Author(s):

Anna Ortega-Williams ◽

Troy Harden

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

African American ◽

Prosocial Behavior ◽

Youth Development ◽

African American Youth ◽

Historical Trauma ◽

Youth Work ◽

Developmental Needs ◽

Development Paradigm

Positive youth development (PYD), while embraced in many sectors of youth work, has faced criticism for its primary emphasis on positive personal change and adaptation, without a strong emphasis on social justice and culture, especially relevant for African Americans. Additional models of PYD addressing these conceptual gaps have emerged, however few explicitly address anti-Black racism and historical trauma impacting African American youth development. In this paper, expanded models of PYD, specifically Empowerment-Based Positive Youth Development (EBPYD) and Critical Positive Youth Development (CPYD) will be examined for their strengths and limitations in responding to (1) anti-Black racism and (2) historical trauma among African American youth. Key strategies of these models, such as promoting prosocial behavior and civic engagement will be reconceptualized and expanded to account for developmental needs imposed by historical oppression and contemporary racism against African American youth. Implications for PYD programing will be discussed.

Positive Youth Development

10.1093/oso/9780190654061.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 87-108

Author(s):

Nora Wiium ◽

Fitim Uka

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Youth Development ◽

The United States ◽

Positive Development ◽

Social Competencies ◽

Use Of Time ◽

Positive Identity ◽

Policies And Programs ◽

Communist Countries

Consistent with the positive youth development perspective, the experience of internal and external assets is associated with positive development or thriving among young people. This proposal has been developed and tested mainly in the United States but it also appears to be considerably true for Roma youth living in post-communist countries. This chapter examines Roma youth (N = 354) experience of various developmental assets and how these assets are related to thriving. Study results indicated positive relations between the assets and thriving, in general. In addition, the experience of constructive use of time was quite low among Roma youth relative to internal assets, such as commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies, and positive identity, and other external assets such as support, empowerment, and boundaries and expectations. While this low experience of constructive use of time could be a general trend among young people, it could also reflect the discrimination and social exclusion that Roma youth often face. Because Roma youth across Europe form a significant and growing proportion of the school-age population and consequently the future workforce, policies and programs that promote both internal and external assets necessary for thriving are essential because thriving has been associated with the development of self and society.

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Emerging Trends and Innovation in Sports Marketing and Management in Asia ◽

Strategies for the Development of Life Skills and Values through Sport Programmes

10.4018/978-1-4666-7527-8.ch014 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 241-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Koon Teck Koh ◽

Martin Camiré

Keyword(s):

Youth Development ◽

Motor Skills ◽

Life Skills ◽

Sport Participation ◽

Positive Development ◽

Training Programmes

Sport is a very popular activity that provides a context suitable for positive youth development (Danish, Forneris, & Wallace, 2005). Although the acquisition of motor skills and sport-specific abilities are indispensable constituents of sport involvement, other elements contributing to athletes' positive development such as life skills and values must be considered (Carron, Hausenblas, & Estabrooks, 2003; Forneris, Camiré, & Trudel, 2012; Landers & Petruzzelo, 1994). Several studies have examined the effectiveness of sport-based programmes designed for developing life skills and values, but a limited amount of research has specifically addressed how to promote this type of material among youth. There is a need for a review that explores the potential approaches for infusing the learning of life skills and values in sport participation, and improving the effectiveness of structured life skills and values-driven training programmes in order to achieve the desired developmental benefits of sport participation.