“A Giant Impact”: Chicago Teens Use Digital Media to Respond to Neighborhood Violence on MacArthur StudentSpeak Blog

From MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: “Previously on StudentSpeak, we met Chicago teenagers who use social media to promote their weekly open-mic night at the YOUmedia digital space at Harold Washington Library.

In these webisodes from Spotlight on Vimeo (episodes 10, 11 and 12), we check out how they’re using their digital media skills to report on and respond to violence in their neighborhoods. Also see artist Lincoln Schatz discuss his project Cure Violence with Spotlight.

YOUmedia got involved in anti-violence efforts as part of a collaboration with the Cure Violence project – a partnership between local and national anti-violence advocates, youth media and leadership organizations, and Lincoln Schatz, a Chicago video and sculpture artist.”

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