Communication is always a challenge when people from different cultures, races, religions, and point of views are trying to construct a peaceful society. By any media necessary: The New Youth Activism is not only a fruit of interdisciplinary research but at the same time part of a bigger project called Connected Youth and Digital Futures Series, which explores young people’s lives. The series consider changes at the level of civil and political actions, transformations in education, and the growing presence of digital technologies in all aspects of human life. As indicates co-author Henry Jenkins, Provost and professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California, today’s youth generation is changed, but it does not mean it is not active. According to Jenkins, youth live a contradiction: on the one hand, there is an erosion of public trust in core institutions, in the mass media that lies in the hands of a few big conglomerates, and in the surveillance that invades our privacy; on the other hand, there are grassroots organizations available to everyday people and networked communications that offer new possibilities to create a community.
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Youth activists seeking to change the world by new media
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