Related Publications
Clark, L.S. (2012). The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age. New York: Oxford University Press.
Clark, L.S. (in review). Cultivating the Media Activist: How Critical Media Literacy, Community Engaged Partnerships, and Service Learning can Reform Journalism Education.
Marchi, R. "With Facebook, Blogs and Fake News, teens reject journalistic 'objectivity.'" Journal of Communication Inquiry (Fall 2012).
Marchi, R. “From Disillusion to Engagement: minority teen journalists and the news media." Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism(13) 6:750-765. (Sage: August 2012).
Clark, L.S. & J. Dierberg. (2012). New Trends, Looking Forward: Stephen Colbert and Late Night Comedy as a Source of Religion News. In Diane Winston, Editor, Handbook of Religion and the News. New York: Oxford University Press.
Clark, L.S. and R. Monserrate. (2011). High school journalism and the making of young citizens. Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism 38:417-432.
Clark, L.S. (2011). Religion and Authority in a Remix Culture: How a Late Night TV Host Became an Authority on Religion. In Gordon Lynch and Jolyon Mitchell, Editors, Religion, Media, and Culture: A Reader. London: Routledge.
Marchi, R. "Z-Radio, Boston: Teen Journalism, Political Engagement, and Democratizing the Airwaves," Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 16(2):127-143, November 2009.
| Young People and the Future of News |
 How do young people relate to civic life and to the news media? With the rise of the digital media environment and the challenges facing traditional journalism industries, this question has been the focus of increasing debate among scholars, educators, and policy makers throughout the past decade. On the one hand, leaders bemoan the declining interest in news consumption among young people. On the other hand, some have argued that it is not young people who are the source of the problem, but rather the shortcomings lie within journalism itself, and perhaps within television news in particular. The problem with these critiques is that both equate “news” with a product that is the result of professional practices lodged within corporate owned media industries. Certainly, corporate owned media will remain influential in how many publics think about news and current events. Yet in the digital era when every person is potentially a creator and distributor of news, we need new frameworks for thinking about what happens outside the scope of these professional practices, particularly in relation to issues of concern to young people. Through in-depth interviews and observations of young people engaged in sharing news among their various publics, as well as historical research that looks at the precedents for today's practices, this project seeks to develop a new framework for thinking about young people and the future of news. Here is a compilation of innovative approaches that have been either designed by media organizations to reach out to youth, or planned and designed by young people themselves. This is a collaborative effort on the part of Associate Professor Lynn Schofield Clark and her research team at the University of Denver, and Regina Marchi, Associate Professor in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. Clark has focused on high-school-based media and journalism programs in the Rocky Mountain region, and Marchi has looked at young peoples' involvement in community radio programs in the Boston and New York City areas. They're looking into how these programs work, the role that parental encouragement plays in these programs, and how these programs might be of benefit to young people and to the communities in which they serve. Research from this project has been presented at the International Communication Association, at the University of Copenhagen, and at two International Conferences on Media, Religion, and Culture. A book in currently being prepared for publication. Grace Chiou (PhD '14), Tess Doezema (MA '13), Elle Mohs (BA '13), Emma Lynch (BA '11), Rachel Monserrate (MA'08), Daliah Singer (BA '08), Alexis Lynn (MA '09) and Art Bamford (MA '10), students at the University of Denver, served as this project's primary Research Associates, and Associate Professor Adrienne Russell has played a key consultative role. Helping to frame this study is current and previous research work by Sonia Livingstone, Elizabeth Bird, Vicki Mayer, Jack Dvorak, Lance Bennett, Ellen Seiter, Mike McDevitt, Amy Jordan, Amy Nathanson, Diane Alters, Peter Dahlgren, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, and several other scholars. |
