Youth, New Media, and Public Participation Research Network
The goal of the Youth, New Media, and Public Participation Planning Grant is to investigate the ways young people’s social and political participation in online communities affects their capacity and motivation to engage in social and political issues. How, for example, does network media’s blurring of the distinction between the public and the private reshape young people’s civic and political engagement? The Project will bring together a group of leading scholars from a range of disciplines to begin addressing this and other questions. They will work collaboratively to assess current research on youth, new media, and public participation and to begin building a new paradigm for understanding public and political participation in a networked world. The Project plans to launch a new research agenda focused on emerging forms of civic and political participation based on this new paradigm.
Network Members
Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Mizuko Ito, Research Scientist, University of California, Irvine
Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Joseph Kahne, Davidson Professor of Education, Mills College School of Education
Postdocs/Staff
Chris Evans, Senior Program Associate, Civic Engagement Research Group, Mills College
Hye-Ryoung Ok, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine
Nam-Jin Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Civic Engagement Research Group, Mills College