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  WELCOME TO THE BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY COMPANION READER AND MEDIA ARCHIVE.

  Who? 

  The Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics (MAPP) project is comprised of a group of multidisciplinary scholars based at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. We were funded by the MacArthur Foundation to develop a series of case studies of innovative networks and organizations that have deployed tactics of 
participatory politics to get young people involved in efforts to heighten 
public awareness and promote social change. A series of individual reports on these networks and organizations were released through the MacArthur research network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP).  

  How and Why? 

  Working with our partners at USC, School of Cinematic Arts Institute for Multimedia Literacy, MAPP created a project that translates MAPP research findings into an accessible and participatory digital media library. On one level, this media library provides resources that enhance and illustrate a MAPP authored book, By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics. On another level, this media archive will become a tool which educators within high schools civics and composition classes, afterschool programs, college classes, and activists organizations can use to help students to master core skills necessary for effectively harnessing digital media tools and participatory politics practices towards changing the world. The library will combine original media produced by activist groups, critical reflections from participants, and curricular resources and activities.

  What? 

  We have developed multimedia resources (and testing a range of classroom practices) that will support scholars, students, and educators -- in school and out -- who want to help foster civic learning. We invite you to explore each of the paths, getting to know the research,  people, organizations, and media artifacts that inspired this project. 

  This online experience is organized around the following paths. Please choose one depending on the experience you are looking for:

  Book Companion - This path is a companion to the "ByAny Media Necessary" book and provides readers with opportunities to further explore ideas and examples it contains.

  Themes - This path highlights key conceptual themes that emerged through our research and other work.

  Featured Campaigns- This path introduces campaigns that we encountered through our work.

  Media Type - Do you want to learn what media to use for what purposes? Follow this path to encounter media type specific examples.

  Genres - Are you interested in how comedy intersects with civic action? Are you looking for examples that would inspire your civically oriented music video? Then this genre specific path is for you.

  Activities - Are you an educator or community organizer looking for ideas of what you can do to help scaffold innovative participatory civic practices? This path navigates curated activities from other groups and organizations.

  Media Library - Browse through the vast collection of media examples curated by the MAPP project.

  Visualization of Paths 

• 1 media/medilibraryimage3.jpg media/medilibraryimage3.jpg 2013-08-14T16:31:35-07:00 Book Companion 18 This Path Provides an Experience as a Companion to the Book par 2014-01-03T10:07:12-08:00

  The By Any Media Necessary book explores new forms of political activities and identities that have emerged from the practices of participatory culture and are impacting how American youth think of their civic identities.

  Over the past few decades, we’ve seen dramatic increases in grassroots access to the means of cultural production and circulation and improvements to the infrastructure required for collective action (Jenkins, Ford, and Green, 2013). This participatory turn in culture has been mirrored by shifts in the ways citizens are collectively and individually exerting power within the political process. Young men and women who learned how to use their cameras recording skateboarding videos, to mashup images to make cute cat pictures, to edit making fan videos, are now turning their skills towards political speech and grassroots mobilization. These “creative activists”  are often speaking to each other through images borrowed from commercial entertainment but remixed to communicate their own messages; they are often deploying social media tools and platforms, sometimes in ways that challenge corporate interests; and they are forging communities through acts of media circulation. The conclusion of Henry Jenkins’s 2006 book, Convergence Culture, proposed that a networked society would soon be applying what they learned through play within participatory culture towards more purposeful realms, such as education, religion, and politics.

  MAPP Project focuses on groups and networks that are largely youth driven communities with low thresholds to participation, make effective use of new media platforms, seek strategies that bridge the cultural and the political, and represent a broad spectrum of demographics, causes, and organizational structures. Research on the case studies included in this book was carried out over a period of four years and included interviews, participant observation and media content analysis.

  By Any Media Necessary represents the culmination of this research, comparing and contrasting across the individual case studies in order to propose a fuller 
conceptual model for thinking about how such organizations scaffold and sustain participatory politics.

  Building on (and contributing to) the MacArthur Foundations Youth and Participatory Politics Network's concept of participatory politics, this paths supplements themes and examples contained in the book.

• 1 media/png;base64a91b562c126c8d94.png media/png (2).png 2014-04-22T09:57:47-07:00 Project Background 7 plain 2014-06-05T14:38:11-07:00 Who? The Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics (MAPP) project is comprised of a group of multidisciplinary scholars based at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. We were funded by the MacArthur Foundation to develop a series of case studies of innovative networks and organizations that have deployed tactics of 
participatory politics to get young people involved in efforts to heighten 
public awareness and promote social change. A series of individual reports on these networks and organizations were released through the MacArthur research network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP). Meet members of the MAPP team here. How and Why? Working with our partners at USC, School of Cinematic Arts Institute for Multimedia Literacy, MAPP created a project that translates MAPP research findings into an accessible and participatory digital media library. On one level, this media library provides resources that enhance and illustrate a MAPP authored book, By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics. On another level, this media archive will become a tool which educators within high schools civics and composition classes, afterschool programs, college classes, and activists organizations can use to help students to master core skills necessary for effectively harnessing digital media tools and participatory politics practices towards changing the world. The library will combine original media produced by activist groups, critical reflections from participants, and curricular resources and activities. What? We have developed multimedia resources (and testing a range of classroom practices) that will support scholars, students, and educators -- in school and out -- who want to help foster civic learning. We invite you to explore each of the paths, getting to know the research, people, organizations, and media artifacts that inspired this project.
• 1 media/Slide1.jpg 2014-04-21T14:49:41-07:00 Welcome Page 7 gallery 2014-04-22T09:54:54-07:00

  WELCOME TO THE BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY COMPANION READER AND MEDIA ARCHIVE.

  Who? 

  The Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics (MAPP) project is comprised of a group of multidisciplinary scholars based at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. We were funded by the MacArthur Foundation to develop a series of case studies of innovative networks and organizations that have deployed tactics of 
participatory politics to get young people involved in efforts to heighten 
public awareness and promote social change. A series of individual reports on these networks and organizations were released through the MacArthur research network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP).  

  How and Why? 

  Working with our partners at USC, School of Cinematic Arts Institute for Multimedia Literacy, MAPP created a project that translates MAPP research findings into an accessible and participatory digital media library. On one level, this media library provides resources that enhance and illustrate a MAPP authored book, By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics. On another level, this media archive will become a tool which educators within high schools civics and composition classes, afterschool programs, college classes, and activists organizations can use to help students to master core skills necessary for effectively harnessing digital media tools and participatory politics practices towards changing the world. The library will combine original media produced by activist groups, critical reflections from participants, and curricular resources and activities.

  What? 

  We have developed multimedia resources (and testing a range of classroom practices) that will support scholars, students, and educators -- in school and out -- who want to help foster civic learning. We invite you to explore each of the paths, getting to know the research,  people, organizations, and media artifacts that inspired this project. 

  This online experience is organized around the following paths. Please choose one depending on the experience you are looking for:

  Book Companion - This path is a companion to the "ByAny Media Necessary" book and provides readers with opportunities to further explore ideas and examples it contains.

  Themes - This path highlights key conceptual themes that emerged through our research and other work.

  Featured Campaigns- This path introduces campaigns that we encountered through our work.

  Media Type - Do you want to learn what media to use for what purposes? Follow this path to encounter media type specific examples.

  Genres - Are you interested in how comedy intersects with civic action? Are you looking for examples that would inspire your civically oriented music video? Then this genre specific path is for you.

  Activities - Are you an educator or community organizer looking for ideas of what you can do to help scaffold innovative participatory civic practices? This path navigates curated activities from other groups and organizations.

  Media Library - Browse through the vast collection of media examples curated by the MAPP project.

  Visualization of Paths 

• 1 2013-12-17T14:38:08-08:00 Featured Campaigns and Issues 7 media 2014-02-18T14:08:05-08:00
  We encountered many worthy and innovative projects and campaigns that mobilized young people to take action around issues that matter to them and others. Some of these campaigns eventually transitions to more sustained civic mobilizations. Others became instances of flash activism. In this path, we highlight campaigns and issues that stood out in our research.
  The campaigns and issues are not listed in particular order.