[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-603361-en":3,"doc-seo-603361-105":30,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":98},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":20,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":20,"is_downloadable":20,"audit_status":20,"page_count":21,"language":22,"language_code":23,"site_id":24,"html_lang":23,"table_of_contents":25,"faqs":26,"seo_title":27,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":28,"read_time":29},603361,962090895452,"moss~","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_a8503ba1806abce46bf441b54a3ca4cd",8,"Research & Report","Organizing MySpace: Youth Walkouts, Pleasure, Politics, and New Media","The article examines youth-led organizing for immigrant rights in the San Francisco Bay Area during March 2006, focusing on how a small coalition organized a one-week hunger strike that gained political pressure and media visibility. On March 27, youth arrivals and coordinated actions escalated mobilization, eventually drawing thousands and influencing Senator Feinstein’s committee stance on proposed legislation. Building on this case, the study analyzes fast organizing enabled by new media and the contemporary terrain of youth organizing and popular culture, including debates over new media’s empowerment versus homogenizing control.","Organizing MySpace: Youth Walkouts, Pleasure, Politics, and New Media  \nBy K. Wayne Yang  \nK. Wayne Yang is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.  \nWhile the major urban centers around the country were flooded by millions of protesters demanding immigrant rights in March 2006, the San Francisco Bay Area remained relatively quiet. A coalition of organizers, including Centro Legal delaRaza, DeportenALaMigra, and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition mobilized a one-week hunger strike, creating media visibility and political pressure despite their smaller numbers.Approximately 30 strike organizers and 15 huegalistas de hambre camped on the concrete in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco, and operated as a condensing point fora series of small actions, including several marches andrallies, none of which exceeded a few hundred people.  \nOn the morning of March 27th, the organizers broke camp and prepared to march to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office to demand changes to the bill1 being constructed by her senate committee. Unlike the millions of marchers in Los Angeles, and hundreds of thousands in San Jose the previous weekends, the San Franciscans who had rallied hundreds of thousands to protest the war in Iraq initiated little activity around immigration  \n􀀹  \npolicy. Perhaps the mainstream media had successfully convinced the Bay Area’s liberal White population that immigrant rights were a Latino issue.  \nIn fact, the massive marches around the country were unprecedented both in their size, but also in their composition as largely working-class, nonpartisan, Brown people. Neither law enforcement nor organizers expected a mass mobilization. It was a quiet Monday morning on March 27th, with Homeland Security officers nearly outnumbering organizers. Local police expected a turnout so small that they were already informing organizers that they would restrict the march to the city sidewalks. Around 11 am, a collective cry went up on the east side of the camp, as a band of youth waving flags and carrying pickets arrived at the camp. Within minutes, another cheer went up at the west side of the camp, as another group arrived.“The students are here!” an organizer told me.  \nSoon, teenagers had flooded the Federal Plaza, and the tall downtown buildings became an echo chamber of cheering and chanting as groups of high school students converged on the camp. Eventually, 3,000 to 5,000 people closed down Market Street, the main thoroughfare through downtown San Francisco, to rally in front of Senator Feinstein’s office. A few hours later, Feinstein announced in committee that she opposed the most repressive aspects of the proposed legislation that would criminalize service providers and family members of undocumented immigrants.  \nYouth played a large role in organizing for immigrant rights in cities throughout the country, but in San Francisco they became the critical mass necessary for a significant mobilization. This article explores the nature offast organizing among youth made possible through the advent of new media, particularly instantaneous text messaging and virtual communities formed in cyberspace. However, this study affords an analysis of not just new media, but of the contemporary terrain of youth organizing and popular culture.  \nProblem Statement  \nAnalyzing effective youth actions is critical for developing a postmodern theory of social change, as such actions reveal both the potential ofnew media and of youth agency. Specifically, effective youth actions should inform our thinking around the democratizing power of youth popular culture, and the theorization of power itself. Youth popular culture is frequently equated with popular media, and disparaged by critics as dominated and debilitating (e.g., Hirsch, 1987) . Without direct observation of the effective use of power and the development of critical resistance through youth popul","cbCaiuIUI67rVo1X","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuIUI67rVo1X","pdf",151835,1,20,"English","en",105,"# Organizing MySpace\n## March 2006 youth walkouts and hunger strike\n## Problem statement: youth agency and social change\n## Power, popular culture, and new media debates","[{\"question\":\"What role did youth play in San Francisco’s immigrant rights mobilization in March 2006?\",\"answer\":\"Youth became a critical mass that rapidly expanded participation. Their arrival at the camp led to flooding of Federal Plaza and ultimately to thousands rallying for changes to proposed legislation.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the hunger strike create political pressure despite small numbers of organizers?\",\"answer\":\"Organizers and hunger strike participants used small actions such as marches and rallies to generate media visibility. This visibility increased political pressure and framed demands for legislative changes.\"},{\"question\":\"What central tension does the article address about new media?\",\"answer\":\"It contrasts theories that warn new media can homogenize and be controlled by corporate culture industries with views that new media spaces enable engagement and empowerment through authorship and cultural production.\"}]","Organizing MySpace: Youth Walkouts, Pleasure, Politics, and New Media | PDF",1792096136,50,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":92,"head_meta":94,"extra_data":96,"updated_unix":97},"organizing-myspace-youth-walkouts-pleasure-politics-and-new-media","",{"@graph":36,"@context":91},[37,54,74],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,48,51],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":47},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":49,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":50},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":52,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":53},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/organizing-myspace-youth-walkouts-pleasure-politics-and-new-media/603361/",4,{"url":52,"name":13,"@type":55,"image":56,"author":61,"headline":13,"publisher":63,"fileFormat":66,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":67,"datePublished":68,"encodingFormat":66,"isAccessibleForFree":69,"interactionStatistic":70},"DigitalDocument",{"url":57,"@type":58,"width":59,"height":60},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/organizing-myspace-youth-walkouts-pleasure-politics-and-new-media/603361.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":9,"@type":62},"Person",{"url":41,"name":64,"@type":65},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-16","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":71,"interactionType":72,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":73},"ViewAction",{"@type":75,"mainEntity":76},"FAQPage",[77,83,87],{"name":78,"@type":79,"acceptedAnswer":80},"What role did youth play in San Francisco’s immigrant rights mobilization in March 2006?","Question",{"text":81,"@type":82},"Youth became a critical mass that rapidly expanded participation. Their arrival at the camp led to flooding of Federal Plaza and ultimately to thousands rallying for changes to proposed legislation.","Answer",{"name":84,"@type":79,"acceptedAnswer":85},"How did the hunger strike create political pressure despite small numbers of organizers?",{"text":86,"@type":82},"Organizers and hunger strike participants used small actions such as marches and rallies to generate media visibility. This visibility increased political pressure and framed demands for legislative changes.",{"name":88,"@type":79,"acceptedAnswer":89},"What central tension does the article address about new media?",{"text":90,"@type":82},"It contrasts theories that warn new media can homogenize and be controlled by corporate culture industries with views that new media spaces enable engagement and empowerment through authorship and cultural production.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":52,"og:type":93,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":64,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":95,"canonical":52},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},1792121277,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":99},[100,104,108,112,117,121,126,129,133,136,140],{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":47,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":53,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":109,"show_sort_weight":110,"slug":111},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":113,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":114,"show_sort_weight":115,"slug":116},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":118,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":119,"show_sort_weight":29,"slug":120},6,"Technology","technology",{"id":122,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":123,"show_sort_weight":124,"slug":125},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},30,"research-report",{"id":130,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":131,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":132},9,"Religion & Spirituality","religion-spirituality",{"id":21,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":134,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":135},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":137,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":138,"show_sort_weight":137,"slug":139},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":141,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":142,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":143},19,"General","general"]