Papers by Chelsey Hauge
Childhood Education , 2020
Feminist Media Studies, 2014
This article addresses the conditions of possibility for international youth who produce media in... more This article addresses the conditions of possibility for international youth who produce media in the context of the AMIGOS/IDA development program run by Amigos de las Americas (AMIGOS) and an International Development Agency (IDA) in rural Nicaragua. The authors examine the conditions within which youth make decisions to produce media about gender, in order to examine how media, gender, and hope intersect in the context of youth-led development programming. Gender emerges as a popular and significant focus for media production in the context of social change within this context. The authors draw on qualitative case study data to argue that modernist development norms and post-feminist sensibilities contribute to the assemblage of complex pedagogical spaces that animate and inform a cautionary analysis regarding marginalization, power, and the limits of pedagogical interventions and liberation discourses.
Canadian Journal of Family and Youth / Le Journal Canadien de Famille et de la Jeunesse
This paper details my involvement as director of a media literacy program that brought together A... more This paper details my involvement as director of a media literacy program that brought together American And Nicaraguan youth to produce media about social issues. Grounded in civic engagement, youth leadership and media literacy, the program provided youth with media equipment and a series of workshops on digital literacy. Youth decided for their final project to re-create the colonial narrative Pocahontas. To me, this signaled a failure of critical media literacy programming to guide young people to tell critical stories. On further examination, I came to relate to this occurrence in a deeper way, wondering how they came to tell this story and discovering something rich and creative underneath the final product. In this paper, I explore the production process for this video, pushing at the boundaries of what constitutes both media literacy and civic engagement, and asking questions about how we understand what constitutes critical media literacy. Instead, I propose that when we fo...
Canadian Journal of Family and Youth / Le Journal Canadien de Famille et de la Jeunesse
This paper details my involvement as director of a media literacy program that brought together A... more This paper details my involvement as director of a media literacy program that brought together American And Nicaraguan youth to produce media about social issues. Grounded in civic engagement, youth leadership and media literacy, the program provided youth with media equipment and a series of workshops on digital literacy. Youth decided for their final project to re-create the colonial narrative Pocahontas. To me, this signaled a failure of critical media literacy programming to guide young people to tell critical stories. On further examination, I came to relate to this occurrence in a deeper way, wondering how they came to tell this story and discovering something rich and creative underneath the final product. In this paper, I explore the production process for this video, pushing at the boundaries of what constitutes both media literacy and civic engagement, and asking questions about how we understand what constitutes critical media literacy. Instead, I propose that when we fo...
Studies in Social Justice, 2019
The history of this special issue takes us back to the richness of conversations and the feelings... more The history of this special issue takes us back to the richness of conversations and the feelings of solidarity that we experienced during a symposium held at Brock University in October 2017. 1 What stood out during the event was not so much ideas, although there were many good ones, but an esprit de corps felt by the group about the future of literacy research in politically charged, media-driven times. There were papers on the politics of literacy and inclusion, collaborative partnerships and spaces, feminist and participatory youth cultures, affect, and arts methods. There were artists, Indigenous prayers accompanied by movement, and a range of maker activities. It was a memorable event filled with conversations inspired by varied histories and epistemologies, and many of the above themes are present in articles featured in this special issue. The rationale behind foregrounding the politics of literacy in the special issue resides in our desire to maintain an overall sense of activism and political action around and within notions of literacy. The phenomenon of being moved by change unites all of the articles and visual essays within the journal issue. A core text guiding all of the papers, implicitly or explicitly, is
In this paper, we argue that creative storytelling -by way of collaborative ethnographic songwrit... more In this paper, we argue that creative storytelling -by way of collaborative ethnographic songwriting and digital video production -can serve to complicate normative representations of breast cancer. We also argue that engaging in these artistic processes can be a practice of survival for people who do not see themselves in publicly available breast cancer narratives. At the center of our analysis is a song and music video, Breast Cancer Pink, which we composed and produced together about one author's experience with young adult breast cancer. We make a case for media and feminist literacies, which we believe enabled the production of Breast Cancer Pink, for the author in question, who found herself on the margins of normative breast cancer narratives. We explore cultural dynamics around breast cancer, visual imaging, and creative practice and draw on Ahmed's feminist notion of the feminist survival kit in order to understand typically invisible experiences of breast cancer.
Everywhere everyday: Youth literacies in new times., 2014
This article addresses the conditions of possibility for international youth who produce media in... more This article addresses the conditions of possibility for international youth who produce media in the context of the AMIGOS/IDA development program run by Amigos de las Americas (AMIGOS) and an International Development Agency (IDA) in rural Nicaragua. The authors examine the conditions within which youth make decisions to produce media about gender, in order to examine how media, gender, and hope intersect in the context of youth-led development programming. Gender emerges as a popular and significant focus for media production in the context of social change within this context. The authors draw on qualitative case study data to argue that modernist development norms and post-feminist sensibilities contribute to the assemblage of complex pedagogical spaces that animate and inform a cautionary analysis regarding marginalization, power, and the limits of pedagogical interventions and liberation discourses.
This article addresses how capacity is conceived of and understood in youth media/civic education... more This article addresses how capacity is conceived of and understood in youth media/civic education programming, and how beliefs about agency, development, relationality and youth manifests in the discourses, programs, and practices of organizations operating youth media programs. Through attention to a youth media and development program in rural Nicaragua, the article addresses a key gap in theorizing how capacity operates within discourses and related practices that constitute 'youth media' and, in particular, it critically investigates how youth media discourse rest on an assumed foundation where capacity is defined as agency, empowerment, or voice. This article situates youth media production within modernist discourses about education, development and 'change', in order to reconceptualize agency through a mobilities framework that more fully attends to the complex and affective moments in youth media discourses.
Youth media organizations have special potential to connect young people across cultures using di... more Youth media organizations have special potential to connect young people across cultures using digital media technologies. These organizations are shifting pedagogical practices to accommodate emerging ways of knowing and being among young people in cross cultural contexts, often incorporating peer-to-peer learning as a key piece of the learning. This research examines the use of strategies that allow youth media organizations to promote exchange by using new media technologies to communicate, build relationships, and create media art. In order to do this, this study looks at the work of AMIGOS de las Americas and Centro Tecnologia SATIC XXI, Vinculacion. Instituto Estatal de Educacion Publica de Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico. These two organizations work together to unite young people from the U.S. and from communities in Oaxaca to collaborate on digital media projects. This research is framed theoretically by Katherine Hayles' work about the virtual, Brian Goldfarb's ideas about youth partnership and peer-to-peer learning, and Paolo Freire's ideas about education for social progress and collaboration.
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