by Sanjay Asthana
Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Through the study of two UNICEF-supported youth media initiatives from Palestine, this article theorizes and generates new empirical knowledge about the encounter between constructions of youth in rights-based discourses of UNICEF and young people’s digital media narratives. The research encountered instances where the universal discourse of children’s rights did not connect with the local realities of youth (constraints) but found that young people translate children’s rights to construct new meanings to suit their local contexts and experiences (possibilities).
Full article:
http://milunesco.unaoc.org/wp-content/uploads/Sanjay_article_feb_2017.pdf