About YPP

The MacArthur Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP) is an interdisciplinary network of scholars working together to understand the ways youth participation in online networks is shaping and reshaping youth civic and political engagement in the public sphere. The YPP Network will examine:

The ways new media may foster a new paradigm for participation in the public sphere.
How frequently and how equitably youth engage in networked public participation.
The relationship between online participatory practices and political participation.
Ways to promote more frequent, more equitable, and higher quality political engagement via participation with new media.

Videos

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Joseph Kahne, professor of education at Mills College,...
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Media Scholar Henry Jenkins on Participatory Culture and...
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Cultural Anthropologist Mimi Ito on Connected Learning,...