Parry, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-6346, Howard, F. and Penfold, L. (2020) Negotiated, contested and political: the disruptive Third Spaces of youth media production. Learning, Media and Technology, 45 (4). pp. 409-421. ISSN 1743-9884
Abstract
Traditionally media production with young people has been characterised by an aspiration to ‘give voice’ or ‘empower youth’, but this core value is under threat. Recently, the rationale for undertaking youth media production has shifted to focus instead on enabling young people to acquire digital skills to serve the needs of rapidly changing creative industries to be entrepreneurs in a gig economy. In this paper, we share qualitative data from a young people’s media production project run in libraries in a city in the United Kingdom where participants were invited to create videogames/stories. We adopt Potter and McDougall’s notion of Third Spaces as negotiated, contested and political to enable us to identify the ways in which pedagogical choices of setting, software and style of facilitation combined to support young people’s critical and creative engagement with digital media and society. We reframe notions of third spaces, seeing less a bridge between linguistic and cultural domains and instead of arguing that Third Spaces are productively disruptive. We conclude by proposing a new set of pedagogical principles for critical reflection in the development and funding of digital media production with young people.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Learning, Media and Technology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Third Spaces; videogames; youth; libraries; media production; storytelling; digital technology; agency; empowerment |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2020 13:11 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17439884.2020.1754238 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159947 |