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Illustra-ons
by
Youth
and
Media
Youth
Advisor
Elsa
Brown
Youth and Online News
MobileMedia Day2016November14, 2016 //
SandraCortesi //
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[In most cases, youth ages 12-18]

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social
media
privacy
safety
augmented
reality
skills
and
digital
literacy
online
news
ar-ficial
intelligence
informa-on
quality
Today – A Navigation Aid
I. Introduction
II. Online news - what we can learn from youth
1. A broader understanding of news
2. Mobile and platform diversification
3. Interactivity
III. Ideas for youth engagement
1. Shape your mindset / adapt a youth perspective
2. Enter youth spaces
3. Enable participation
IV. Why it matters

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Today – A Navigation Aid
I. Introduction
II. Online news - what we can learn from youth
1. A broader understanding of news
2. Mobile and platform diversification
3. Interactivity
III. Ideas for youth engagement
1. Shape your mindset / adapt a youth perspective
2. Enter youth spaces
3. Enable participation
IV. Why it matters
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Ananda

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Today – A Navigation Aid
I. Introduction
II. Online news - what we can learn from youth
1. A broader understanding of news
2. Mobile and platform diversification
3. Interactivity
III. Ideas for youth engagement
1. Shape your mindset / adapt a youth perspective
2. Enter youth spaces
3. Enable participation
IV. Why it matters
A different
understanding of
news.
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1) Related to politics or current events
Aligns with the systematic definition of news as information
that empowers citizens to be active and engaged in
democracy and community (Downie & Kaiser, 2003).
Female, 17: “It depends, but the
first things that come to mind, for
me, when you hear about news, is
politics or political things like the
government. And I think of the
newspaper because even news
shows are not separate from
gossip anymore.” (2013)
2) Anything “breaking”
Aligns with the broad empirical definition of news as
anything from information about current events to a friend’s
new relationship (Cortesi, Haduong, Gasser, & Beaton,
2013).
Female, 15: “News doesn’t have to be major, though – just
something that needs to be told.” (2013)
Female, 14: “Well, news means to me, I don’t know,
updates. Things that are going on. Things that are going
on around the world.” (2013)
Male, 17: “New games.” (2013)

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3) “Feeds” and posts
In the digitally networked environment, “news
feeds” (Facebook) and “feeds” (Twitter, Tumblr) indicate
that peers’ posts are news (Downie & Schudson, 2009).
Female, 14: “Anything that people post counts as news.
‘Cause everything shows up in your news feed.” (2013)
Male, 16: “If it shows up in my news feed, it’s news to
me.” (2013)
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/126615?rskey=U7l680&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid

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Mobile and platform
diversification.
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Platform Diversification
1. Individual / peer group(s)
2. Audiences
3. Features / affordances
4. Context
5. Perceived intimacy/privacy
What Teens Share on Social Media
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Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/what-teens-share-on-social-media/

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Platform Diversification in Numbers
Source: Piper Jaffray – “Taking Stock with Teens” (Fall 2016)
Snapchat
Instagram
Twi1er
Facebook
Pinterest
Google
+
Percentage of Teens Who Use SNS
Once A Month - Fall 2016 + 2015
Interactivity.
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Today – A Navigation Aid
I. Introduction
II. Online news - what we can learn from youth
1. A broader understanding of news
2. Mobile and platform diversification
3. Interactivity
III. Ideas for youth engagement
1. Shape your mindset / adapt a youth perspective
2. Enter youth spaces
3. Enable participation
IV. Why it matters

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Shape your
mindset / adapt a
youth perspective.1

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Enter youth spaces.
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As
(young)
users
shiN
priority
from
social
networks
to
messaging
apps
like
WhatsApp,
Snapchat,
Facebook
Messenger,
etc.,
they
have
become
powerful
news
plaTorms.

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Source:
hVps://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/facebook-­‐admits-­‐it-­‐must-­‐do-­‐more-­‐to-­‐
stop-­‐the-­‐spread-­‐of-­‐misinforma-on-­‐on-­‐its-­‐plaTorm/?
ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A
+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
Source:
hVps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/
mark-­‐zuckerberg-­‐on-­‐fake-­‐news-­‐iden-fying-­‐the-­‐truth-­‐is-­‐
compli?utm_term=.jurb45oKJ#.tn2B2KJ3N

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Source:
hVp://www.geekwire.com/
2016/wake-­‐trump-­‐victory-­‐ex-­‐twiVer-­‐
soNware-­‐engineer-­‐asks-­‐build/
Enable participation.
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Today – A Navigation Aid
I. Introduction
II. Online news - what we can learn from youth
1. A broader understanding of news
2. Mobile and platform diversification
3. Interactivity
III. Ideas for youth engagement
1. Shape your mindset / adapt a youth perspective
2. Enter youth spaces
3. Enable participation
IV. Why it matters

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21st-century
skills
Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/21st-century-skills-future-jobs-students/

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Connect
• Twitter
• @sandracortesi
• @youthandmedia
• @digitallyconnected
• Facebook
• https://www.facebook.com/
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• Email: scortesi@cyber.law.harvard.edu
• Pages
• youthandmedia.org
• Digitallyconnected.org
• Conectadosalsur.org