User:Amrogers

About me:
Senior Broadcast News and Sociology double major with a concentration in Law and Business at Drake University. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. A true Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Wild fan.

I am currently a student in Dr. V's class Global Youth Studies.

To learn more about me visit my professional page by clicking here.

What I'd like to contribute to on Wikipedia:
Since I'm a journalism major I'd like to research Youth-Led Media more.

Topic Proposal: Youth-Led Media:
I want to start a page on Youth-led media because I think it is a topic that could lend a hand to understanding not only the group "youths" more but also understanding the role media plays in our society. I find social and political engagement fascinating when it comes to how it can shape the way people think and live their lives. We are seeing an increase in different media trends and platforms; and an increase in the amount of people using these mediums. So I would like to explore how young adults today shape the media, change it, and engage with it.

When looking at Learning from each other: Collective practices in making independent youth media I noticed a few key words I would like to address in my own article. These basic principles include Independent youth media outlets, Media activism, and Youth citizenship.

Ultimately I think it is often overlooked at how "journalists" no longer implies someone with a degree in journalism. Now days, teenagers and young adults are contributing to media using Twitter, Youtube, and even Facebook. These platforms are contributing to the role youths decide to engage in with the media. I would like to highlight key topics like Arab Spring, Iran's Green Movement, and the Boston Marathon Bombing (possibly). Lastly, I want to talk about the pros and cons of citizen journalism, especially when it is young adults who probably just picked up their iPhone and started recording or taking pictures.

Sources Thus Far & Where to Include it:
Looking at the news source Beijing Youth News, which has experienced a lot of success in the past few years and it's place in propaganda/commercial journalism. It compares Party-journism, which takes a more propaganda style, with more market-driven journalism.

Sherman is a good source looking at the potential of youth-led journalism. Specifically "serious, policy-focused community change." I'll use this article in the section about how there has been policy change due to youth-led politically focused media. Examples: Arab Spring, Iran's Green Movement.

A more in depth look at Cairo, Egypt in 2011 during the "popular revolution." This article touches on how pro-democratic young adults were able to mobilize the government and use new media platforms and technologies to get global attention.

To continue to add to the "Globalization" piece of Global Youth Studies, this article depicts the relationship between Youths and News media. This article is particularly interesting because it looks at the construction of youth identity through news and their role in it.

Grixti might be going in a different direction that my Wiki-page might be taking, but nonetheless I felt this gave some interesting background that I felt would be useful. The article describes how young adults in Malta are being effected by global media. Commercial global media is causing this hybrid of indigenous Maltese and a more post-colonial identity.