Sasha Costanza-Chock - Youth Media and Youth Movements: Organizing, Innovation, Liberation | DML2013
Channel: Connected Learning Alliance
Date: 2012-10-24

Sasha Constanza-Chock, chair of the "Youth Media and Youth Movements: Organizing, Innovation, Liberation" track of DML2013, shares his thoughts on the myth of youth political apathy.

(05:16) "Youth movements frequently operate outside the existing channels of political participation. That's one of the reasons, I think, why young people are dismissed as apolitical or apathetic. They may be organizing in spaces that don't look like politics to academics or to political consultants. [...] Young people organize and mobilize through ad hoc networks."

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Sasha is interviewed in this video by Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs."