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

Media Engagement, Literacy and Dialogue among European Youth explores young people’s participation in digital media spaces, drawing on participatory research methods to reflect with youth on how digital media is interwoven into their daily lives.

Focusing on young people’s understandings of political and cultural exchanges, and what responses and actions they initiate, the book offers insight into their public engagement, digital media ethics, and an understanding of what capacities and challenges affect cultural dialogue and political participation. The chapters centre around case studies from Norway, Austria and Germany, asking how young people use participatory media formats to display media literacy in relation to diversity, activism, and cultural dialogue. The chapters also include recommendations they have for building media literacy that advances engagement, creativity and inclusiveness among youth.

This book is intended for use in graduate courses, by doctoral students and the established research community and is freely available online on taylorandfrancis.com.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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.