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Who is the Adolescent?A few windows into places that will help us begin to find outBelow is a list of possible places and information you can use to learn about youth. It is by no means an exhaustive list. I notice, for example, that it doesn’t include any social responsibility organizations, for youth such as Planned Parenthood, or community youth groups. Hopefully thelist will prime your thinking about the types of places that you might hang out in and the kinds ofresources you might find to learn about the place: What ever place your group ends up exploring, find and examine both:(i) the actual materials adolescents interact with; and (ii) some data that will help you to determine how important to, or how broadly the thing you are examining is used by, adolescents. In some cases you may have to sleuth around for statistics. I found them by typing in words such as “television” “youth” “statistics” into Google. Contacting organizations (e.g. radio stations) might be a strategy too.Remember to always consider the source of your data. For example: Who is the target audience?How was the data collected? Who was the sample? What’s the goal and mission of the organization that compiled the data? Etc. Newspapers - Use “National Newspapers” and “ Ethnic NewsWatch” (Reference & Journals section of the library catalogue page) and hunt for articles about teenagers. Do a key word search using a broad range of terms such as: “teenagers,” “teens,” “adolescent,” “adolescents,” etc.NOTE: when you use Ethnic NewsWatch, make sure that you filter the findings to only pull up newspapers. See image below for which tab to click on:Adolescent use of Internet- Sign on to an online community such as MySpace. These are places where youth are socializing, meeting new people, writing blogs, collecting music, etc. The sight is set up for people to observe and interact with people they don’t know yet. You can search specifically for the sites of 16-18 year olds and for sites of teens within particular zip codes. (NOTE: Your group should identify some ethical boundaries for your use of this site. You’ll notice that, while this is a public space, not all teens are paying attention to, for example, the legalities of some of the things they write about.)- Rideout, V., Roberts, D.F. &. Foehr, U.G. (2005, March) Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year olds. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved January 6, 2006, from http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Executive-Summary-Generation-M-Media-in-the-Lives-of-8-18-Year-olds.pdf- Lenhart, A., Madden, M., & Hitlin, P. (2005, July 27). Teens and Technolog: Youth are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile nation. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Retrieved January 6, 2006, from http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Tech_July2005web.pdfWatch TV programming for and used by teens- Nielson Media Research (2005, August 15) Teens Tune Into Local TV: Local People Meters Capture Broad Diversity of Summer Viewing Among Young Audiences. http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/portal/site/Public/menuitem.55dc65b4a7d5adff3f65936147a062a0/?allRmCB=on&newSearch=yes&vgnextrefresh=1&vgnextoid=b0694664875c5010VgnVCM100000880a260aRCRD&searchBox=sweeps- Rideout, V., Roberts, D.F. &. Foehr, U.G. (2005, March) Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year olds. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved January 6, 2006, from http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Executive-Summary-Generation-M-Media-in-the-Lives-of-8-18-Year-olds.pdfListen to Music popular among Adolscents.- Rideout, V., Roberts, D.F. &. Foehr, U.G. (2005, March) Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year olds. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved January 6, 2006, from http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Executive-Summary-Generation-M-Media-in-the-Lives-of-8-18-Year-olds.pdfBooks- Go to Orca Books, Barnes & Nobel, the public library, the school librarian, etc. Find out what the most popular books are for adolescents in this area. There are also recommended reading lists put out by national bookstore associations. - What’s on the school reading lists?- Results from doing the Burke reading inventory with your studentsYouth Magazines- The downtown public library may well be a good source for scouring these magazines. - The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation(2004, Fall) Key Facts: Teens, Tweens and Magazines. Retrieved January 6, 2006, from http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Tweens-Teens-and-Magazines-Fact-Sheet.pdfYouth Radio and Media Proejcts- Youth Media organizations http://www.freechild.org/YouthMediaOrgs.htm- Kids and the American Dream http://www.kidsandtheamericandream.com/- Youth Radio http://www.youthradio.org/index.shtml- Blunt Youth Radio Project http://www.bluntradio.org/- To find statistics you might want to contact the organization.Work- The Bureau of Labor Statistics within the U.S. Department of Labor have put out a big set of longitudinal studies on youth in the workforce. (Look at the PDF files rather than the text files. They are easier to read.)


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