Youth and Media

During a summer at Youth and Media (YaM), interns will contribute to a diverse, creative, and collaborative group that encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (ages 12-18) and digital technology. Our project aims to gain detailed insights into youth media practices and digital fluencies, harness the associated opportunities, address challenges, and ultimately shape the evolving regulatory and educational framework in a way that advances the public interest. For 2020, we are looking for candidates with fresh ideas, serious curiosity, passion, and creative drive who 1) have interest and experience in qualitative research methods (e.g., listening to interviews, distilling highlights, transcript analysis) to assist with focus group interviews around topics such as privacy, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence, 2) are skilled in various types of writing (e.g., literature reviews, grant writing, memo writing, report writing, and newsletter writing), as well as copyediting, 3) are interested in designing creative learning tools for students of diverse backgrounds (please see here and here for examples of some of the educationals tools we have produced), and 4) ideally have an interest in graphic design, media production, and/or translating academic work for a broader public. Check out the following blog post and podcast, which explore the social dynamics of Instagram, to see an example of an output produced by our most recent cohort of YaM interns!