Brad Miller:
Changes in youth culture are apparent in many different media vehicles. One vehicle that people don’t always think about is student-run newspapers. There are changes because of evolving language and there are changes because of new topics on kids’ minds. The article “Changes in America’s Youth Culture as Portrayed through High School Literary Publications From 1915-2001” by Alison Woitunski focuses on those two issues. She argues that America’s youth is beginning to express itself in new ways. The youth is becoming a new voice in the world. The student-run papers give youth an opportunity to voice their opinions. These papers offer the first real opportunity for youth to share their thoughts. Like we talked about in class, there used to only be two voices, children and adults. But through new vehicles run by America’s youth, a third voice is now coming through.
http://www.primaryresearch.org/PRTHB/studentresearch/04/woitunski.php
Comments (1)
I think that also goes back to when we talked about legacy media. Newspapers still play a big role. I feel like sometimes when we hear "youth" we assume that they automatically just use the internet for everything since they have basically grown up in the technology era, but that shows that they still rely on traditional media. I know I still do, and I think it has a lot to do with what types of media we grew up with.
Posted by Courtney Montle | February 26, 2007 7:38 PM
Posted on February 26, 2007 19:38