By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

By Any Media Necessary webinar

On September 23, 2014, Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics (MAPP) participated in an NWP Educator Innovator webinar, By Any Media Necessary. Educators Paul Richardson, from Kansas City, Missouri, and Sarabeth Leitch, from Portland, Oregon, joined facilitator Paul Oh and MAPP team members Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, Sangita Shresthova, and Liana Gamber-Thompson in a discussion of what embracing a “By Any Media Necessary” approach in the classroom looks like on the ground. Participants discussed integrating peer-based learning, media production, popular culture, and storytelling into the classroom.

The participants discussed the following framing questions during the webinar: Don't have time to watch the full webinar? Liana Gamber-Thompson published a blog post on NWP’s Digital Is platform, called “Truth-telling in the Age of Digital Media,” which incorporated insights from the webinar and the author’s experiences participating in one of the workshops featured on BAMN. 
 

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