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Explores how military service and voting restrictions, fears about youth power, and reliance on brands and media complicate conventional civic participation. 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They may be viewed as junior citizens on some issues, yet as disruptive threats on others.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How do media and globalization influence young people’s civic identity?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"Young people may link citizenship to the brands and media they consume rather than abstract democratic rules. 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Teenagers in the United States can join the military before they are allowed to vote or consume alcohol. On certain issues, young people are seen, at best, as junior citizens, incapable of acting effectively on their own behalf. Other issues, by contrast, trigger fears that young people enjoy excessive power to effect change and disrupt society—fears that suggest a rationale for boosting surveillance and social control. Such scholars as  \nNestor Garcia Canclini (2001) even argue that young people today are more likely to attribute a sense of citizenship to the brands and media they consume rather than to abstract rules of democracy or to participation in conventional civic institutions. The globalization of youth culture further complicates young people’s relationship to democracy as traditionally conceived. More and more young people define themselves as cosmopolitan citizens, connected through popular culture, digital technologies, and migration histories to social geographies outside their own local and national contexts (Maira & Soep, 2005) . Despite these new forms of citizenship in youth culture, however, one familiar image of young people remains unchanged: They continue to be seen as disengaged from organized efforts to lead and represent their communities.  \nThose of us who work with young people, particularly in community-based youth organizations, know that this image of apathy is deeply flawed. These organizations are fueled by the opposite of youth apathy: youth agency, expressed  \nELISABETH SOEP is education director and senior producer at Youth Radio in California, where she collaborates with young media artists on stories for local and national outlets, including National Public Radio. Youth Radio stories have been recognized with several top media honors, including George Foster Peabody, Edward R. Murrow, and Gracie Allen Awards. Elisabeth holds [a Ph.D. in](a Ph.D. in) education from Stanford University. Her research, published in several national and international journals, focuses on youth learning and cultural production beyond classroom walls. She recently co-edited Youthscapes, a volume on youth culture and globalization (with Sunaina Maira, University of Pennsylvania Press); she is also working on a new book, Making the News, about youth media (with Vivian Chavez, University of California Press, under contract) . Elisabeth has taught at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley.  \nthrough active participation in policymaking and com- My primary focus in this article is the dimension of  \nmunity organizing and through the exercise of funda- the youth media movement focused on hands-on pro  \nmental rights such as free speech. duction in non-school spaces—sites where young peo  \nThe media figures centrally in any link between ple generate original stories for significant audiences. youth and democracy. From mainstream network and School-based media education programs certainly exist cable broadcasts to online blogs, a proliferating array of throughout the U.S. , supported in the last several years news sources shapes young people’s by the development of national  \nunderstandings of the political process. When young people transform media literacy standards and The stniablyainndarfludxs, of news mperhaps eveedniacarirseisunde- lived experience and policy stcraetewideative meeffordiatsptroodinutectigoranteinto Teenagers and young adults in the U.S. discourse into powerful public the curriculum (Tyner, 1998) . are forming civic identities amid widely However, sites operating out  \npublicized scandals surrounding narratives inflected with the side of schools, especially inde  \nreporting on their president’s military aesthetic sensibilities of youth pendent afterschool programs, record and on treatment of prisoners in are a key force in the youth  \nGua","cbCaim67PmntXmyC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim67PmntXmyC","pdf",292464,11,"English","# Youth and citizenship contradictions\n# Media, globalization, and civic identity\n## Brands, media consumption, and surveillance concerns\n# Youth agency through community organizations\n## Participation, rights, and policymaking\n# Youth media as a civic force","[{\"question\":\"What contradictions shape how young people are treated as citizens?\",\"answer\":\"Teenagers can face limits on voting and alcohol while still being eligible to join the military. 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