Designing a Youth Media Bill of Rights at CLS 2022
June 17, 2022
What would the internet look like if young people designed it with their needs, interests, and rights in mind? What would be different about our information ecologies, what media and news organizations look like, and how tech platforms operate? Based on the principle that all children need to be heard and taken seriously, media groups, tech companies, researchers, and advocates must think together with young people, about how to prioritize youths’ best interests by enabling their participation in conversations about the future of media, technology, and the internet. What would a “Youth Media Bill of Rights” look like?
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is organizing a workshop at the Connected Learning Summit on Thursday, July 28 at 1:30 pm PT/4:30 pm ET. Together, participants will imagine new visions for the media life of young people through a mix of design thinking activities and group conversations to surface new principles.
We’re looking to recruit a diverse group of young people to join us — in the best case, we’ll have an even balance of youth and adult participants in the room (or perhaps even more youth than adults!). If you know a young person between the ages of 12-20 who would like to dig into these topics with us, please have them fill out this form. We will be hosting a pre-meeting on Thursday, July 21 at 1:30 pm PT/4:30 pm ET to help orient our youth participants to the session and our goals.
