International Perspectives on Youth Media

Contents: JoEllen Fisherkeller: Introduction. International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production and Education - Kathleen Tyner: Mapping the Field of Youth Media Organizations in the United States - Sanjay Asthana: Youth Media Imaginaries in the Arab World: A Narrative and Discourse Analysis - Karina Kosicki Bellotti: Media and Christian Youth Groups in Brazil - Sun Sun Lim/Elmie Nekmat/Shobha Vadrevu: Singapore's Experience in Fostering Youth Media Production: The Implications of State-Led School and Public Education Initiatives - Richard Chalfen/Michael Rich: Studying Research Capabilities of Youth Media: Analyzing Children's Audiovisual Expressions about Health - Michael Dezuanni: Youth Media Production and Technology Skills Acquisition: Opportunities for Agency - David Levin: "Because It's Not Really Me": Students' Films and Their Potential as Alternative Media - Ivana Espinet/ Katina Paron/Lisa Denerstein/Sanda Htyte: Changing Hats: From Practitioners to Practitioner-Researchers - Damiana Gibbons/Téa Drift/Deanna Drift: Whose Story Is It? Being Native and American: Crossing Borders, Hyphenated Selves - Wendy Luttrell/Jennifer Dorsey/Carla Shalaby/Julia Hayden: Transnational Childhoods and Youth Media: Seeing with and Learning from One Immigrant Child's Visual Narrative - Fredrik Lindstrand/Lisbeth Frølunde/Øystein Gilje/Lisa Öhman-Gullberg: Interests in Motion: The Film Medium Through the Eyes and Lenses of Young Scandinavian Filmmakers - Karen Orr Vered: Center or Margin? The Place of Media Play in Children's Leisure: Case Studies from Sweden and Australia - Elisabeth Soep: All the World's an Album: Youth Media as Strategic Embedding - Amy Stornaiuolo/Glynda A. Hull/Urvashi Sahni: Cosmopolitan Imaginings of Self and Other: Youth and Social Networking in a Global World - Peter Lemish: Facilitating the Social Reality Challenge with Youth Filmmakers - Stuart R. Poyntz/Michael Hoechsmann: Not Just Philosophizing: Producing Effective Youth Media and

JoEllen Fisherkeller is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her research and publications focus on young people's relationships to all media within the contexts of their everyday lives. She has published a book and articles in the areas of media and cultural studies, media education, anthropology, and youth media.