Under the bright lights of the commercial media industry, there is a history of collaborative media production movements in the United States, ordinary people experimenting with media production tools at their fingertips, seeking ways to document meaningful projections of their lived experience. Youth-led media production emerges out of these community-based, amateur production practices. This presentation will address the history of youth-led media production in the United States, a story about the ingenuity born through circumstance and unintentional uses of technology by people hoping, striving and finding creative expression in response to the world around them. In the last decade, youth produced media has percolated in commercial culture, across industries and become a highly-courted consumer market, shaping the possibilities for agency with media production practice and setting the stage for the dangers lurking in this collision between youth produced media, accessible recording technologies and the public exposure of online networks.
Here is a little bit about Dr. Angela Aguayo: https://media.illinois.edu/aguayo-angela/
Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch!