June 2008 Archives

Youth Producing Change World Premiere & Youth Production Workshop
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 17, 2008
YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE Founding Presenter: Adobe Youth Voices (World Premiere) Run time: 78 min Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center Friday, June 20th, 6:30 p.m. Discussion with youth filmmakers and reception to follow Saturday, June 21st, 1:30 p.m. Discussion with...

Radio Arte's "Homofrecuencia"
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 16, 2008

Queer youth producers speak from REACH LA
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 16, 2008

Youth Media is Coming Out
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 16, 2008
Youth media programs have what it takes to support queer youth and their inventive approaches to making media and eradicating homophobia one large step at a time.

June/July • Volume 2 • Issue 3
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 15, 2008
Letter from the Editor Welcome to Youth Media Reporter's third web issue in 2008. The articles in Volume 2: Issue 3 focus on ways the field can better serve queer youth and focus on hip-hop as a media tool. Contributors...

Meaningful Distribution: Involving Youth Media Makers Beyond Production
By: Lila Kitaeff
Published: June 6, 2008
Youth media educators have the potential to amplify the impact of youth produced media by extending projects beyond production.

Overcoming Identity Politics in Youth Media
By: Joanna Kohler
Published: June 6, 2008
The dangers of claiming a utopian answer to a population’s need for voice.

"Ni Full ile laana" (It’s as real as it gets): The creative blending of Hip-Hop with oratory styles to address HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
By: Mohamed Yunus Rafiq
Published: June 6, 2008
How Tanzanian youth use Hip-Hop to inform their communities of HIV/AIDS and become part of the solution.

“You Must Learn”: Promoting Hip-hop in Education
By: David E. Kirkland, Ph.D
Published: June 6, 2008
The case of Hip-Hop in an English class proves that using alternative media is a more effective approach to learning.

Interview: Byron Hurt
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 6, 2008
Filmmaker of the award-winning documentary Beyond Beats & Rhymes.

Hip-Hop: The Medium of Urban Youth
By: Davin Thompson
Published: June 6, 2008
Hip-Hop affords urban youth cultural and personal expression and as such, needs to be recognized as an important youth media tool.

Oja Vincent from Hook Productions on Sean Bell
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 5, 2008