“Just Like I Have Felt”: Multimodal Counternarratives in Youth-Produced Digital Media

Translation and localization of children's rights in youth-produced digital media in the Global South: A hermeneutic exploration

Through the study of two UNICEF-supported youth media initiatives from Palestine, this article theorizes and generates new empirical knowledge about the encounter between constructions of youth in rights-based discourses of UNICEF and young people’s digital media narratives. The research encountered instances where the universal discourse of children’s rights did not connect with the local real...

"I have always felt different": the experience of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in childhood.

Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most important psychiatric problems of our time. This study examined the experience of childhood ADHD within the contexts that are most significant to this age group--home, school, and friendships. The sample included 16 college-enrolled young adults (ages 18-25) with a self-reported history of ADHD. Participants revealed f...

‘I felt that I was benefiting someone’: youth as agents of change in a refugee community project

Youth can be 'powerful catalysts' in their own and their community's development. The paper describes the experience of youth based on their participation as decision makers in and implementers of a community-based research project in a Palestinian refugee camp of Beirut, Lebanon. In-depth interviews were conducted with 18 youth and 10 of their family members or friends. The participants were a...

Digital Media and Youth: Unparalleled Opportunity and Unprecedented Responsibility

With the sudden explosion of digital media content and access devices in the last generation, there is now more information available to more people from more sources than at any time in human history. Pockets of limited availability by geography or status notwithstanding, people now have ready access to almost inconceivably vast information repositories that are increasingly portable, accessib...

Book Review: The Digital Youth Network: cultivating digital media citizenship in urban communities