Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth Participatory Research as a Gateway

Section I: Theories and Methods of Participation

1. Introduction: Focusing on youth media participation and literacy

2. Recruiting young people to participatory research

3. Methods for doing participatory media research with youth

Section II: Participation in Practice – Case Studies

4. Media-based Say, Do, Make activities for youth participation in research

5. New modes of participatory research. Visual autoethnographies of young people

6. Sharing as ‘participation in the untrue’ on the Internet

7. Hybrid activism. Skateboarders using media for voicing their protest

8. Participation using ethical practices

Section III: Adapting social media journalism for the youth

9. Behind the newsfeed: Social media journalism and political education for young people

Section IV: Toolkits for future research

10. Toolkits for including youth in media research activities

Index

Biography

Harald Hornmoen is a Professor of Journalism at OsloMet (Oslo Metropolitan University), Norway. His research interests include literary journalism, the philosophy of journalism, discourse and narrative analysis, risk and environmental communication, and the relationship between science, journalism, and society. Hornmoen is coordinator of the U-YouPa project and one of the coordinators of the Media Narration Group at OsloMet.

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at OsloMet, Norway, and a Docent in Communication, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research considers the evolving relationship between media and society, and its effect on different communities and sectors.

Dagny Stuedahl is a Media Design Professor at OsloMet, Norway, and Henrik-Steffens-Professor at Humboldt-University zu Berlin. She leads the Media Practices Research Group at OsloMet and teaches courses on media design, visual communication, participatory research, and media usage studies. Her research is centred around participatory practices for museums and cultural heritage communication, with a special emphasis on collaborating with youth and children.