Youth

Pac-Man Meets the Minutemen: Video Games by Los Angeles Latino Youth
By Katynka Z. Martinez - Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University

As someone who came of age in the mid-1980s, I am quite familiar with Pac-Man. The first time I played the game was at a neighborhood arcade called the Electric Planet. I still remember the song “Pac-Man Fever,” and the jingle that plays when Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man meet continues to hold a special place in my heart.

Youth Media Goes Mobile

By Elisabeth Soep - Senior Producer and Research Director of Youth Radio.

At Youth Radio, an afterschool program and youth-driven production company in Oakland, California, if a student takes out a cell phone during class, she’ll get in trouble. Inappropriate cell phone use even serves as a major plot-point in a mock fight peer educators will sometimes stage in class to teach students how to write a good story lede. A teacher whips out her cell phone in the middle of a lecture and starts chatting with a friend.

Beyond the Digital Divide:
How New Technologies Can Amplify Civic Engagement and Community Participation

Congratulations to Youth Radio/Youth Media International for winning this year’s Peabody Award. They were given the award for Trafficked, their two-part investigative series that explores the sex trade of minors in Oakland largely through first-hand accounts of the victims.

Congratulations to Youth Radio/Youth Media International for winning this year’s Peabody Award. They were given the award for Trafficked, their two-part investigative series that explores the sex trade of minors in Oakland largely through first-hand accounts of the victims.

Mozilla and ZeroDivide Announce Youth Media Partnership Program will use HTML5 video tools to teach media literacy skills

On Saturday, March 19, Mozilla and ZeroDivide will publicly launch a collaboration with the Bay Area Video Coalition to teach media literacy skills using fun web video tools.

Mozilla and ZeroDivide will share details of their partnership at the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., and demonstrate open source video tools under development at Mozilla’s Web Made Movies laboratory.