Youth Community Inquiry

offers a detailed look at how young people use new media to help their communities thrive. Chapters address questions about learning, digital technology, and community engagement through the theory of community inquiry. The book concludes with an overview of a curriculum that readers may adapt for their own settings.

Bertram C. Bruce (PhD in computer science from the University of Texas) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. His many publications include and Ann Peterson Bishop (PhD in information transfer from Syracuse University) is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois. She is the co-editor of and co-author of chapters and articles in publications that include and Nama R. Budhathoki (PhD in regional planning from the University of Illinois) directs Kathmandu Living Labs in Nepal. His interest and expertise lie at the intersection of digital media, civic engagement, and collective action, with particular focus on crowd-sourced mapping and social media.

Contents: Bertram C. Bruce: Community Inquiry – Ching-Chiu Lin/Karyn M. Mendoza: Youth Interests and Digital Media: 4-H Podcasting Program in Urbana Middle School – Alex Jean-Charles: New Media Technology: Tools of Expression/Repression in Communities – Nama R. Budhathoki/Bertram C. Bruce/Jill Murphy/Kimberly Rahn: Beyond Human Sensors: The Learning Instincts of Youth Using Geospatial Media – William Patterson/Shameem Rakha: «Now I Am College Material»: Engaging Students Through Living Reflections of Self-Identity as a Form of Pedagogy – Sally K. Carter/Shameem Rakha/Chaebong Nam – TAPping In: Education, Leadership, and Outright Gumption – Chris Ritzo/Mike Adams: Teen Tech, East St. Louis: Navigating New Community Partnerships – Jeff Bennett/Robin Fisher: The Learning Never Stops: Creating a Curriculum That Resonates Beyond the Classroom – Patrick W. Berry/Alexandra Cavallaro/Elaine Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús/Naomi García: (Re)voicing Teaching, Learning, and Possibility in Paseo Boricua – Chaebong Nam: Youth Asset Mapping: The Empowering and Engaging Youth Project (E2Y) – Jeanie Austin/Joe Coyle/Rae-Anne Montague: Creating Collaborative Library Services to Incarcerated Youth – Iván M. Jorrín-Abellán: A Needle in a Haystack: Evaluating YCI – Angela M. Slates/Ann Peterson Bishop: «It Takes a Community»: Community Inquiry as Emancipatory Scholarship, Indigenous Agency, Performative Inquiry, and Democracy Education – Martin Wolske/Eric Johnson/Paul Adams: Citizen Professional Toolkits: Empowering Communities Through Mass Amateurization – Lisa Bouillion Diaz: Youth Community Informatics Curriculum.