Peter Levines Key Points

1. Imagining the Audience: language,creativity and communication inyouth media productionby David Buckingham & Issy HarveyA Public Voice for Youth: The Audience Problem in Digital Mediaand Civic Educationby Peter Levine

2. Peter Levines Key Points “A public voice is always one that can persuade other people to take action on shared issues” (Levin p. 120) At WHYY there are two classes and both incorporate the students thoughts and ideas into a topic they all want to raise awareness to and voice publicly. Ex. Documentary Workshop- Complexities of senior life before college Ex. Studio Production Workshop- Panel show like “The View”, discussing important topics and current events

3. Peter Levines Key Points Cont. The Internet “During the second half of the twentieth century, voluntary associations weakened, American communities became more alike, and corporate media dominated… however, the Internet and other new electronic media have allowed people to produce and disseminate their own ideas, which can be diverse and relevant to their communities” (Levine p. 122) This statement made me think about the students at WHYY and there interaction with the internet. When they first come in to the class waiting for the others, the first thing they do is jump on YouTube. Some even have YouTube accounts where they post their own videos and share videos they find important or worth sharing with the public.

4. Peter Levines Key Points Cont. “Community-based, nonprofit youth media groups have developed an impressive body of experience and knowledge. The next step is to increase the scale of media work dramatically, which means offering more and better courses in schools.” (Levine p. 135) This statement got me thinking about schools and the students in class, because WHYY is a non-profit organization and gives the technology and opportunity to students to gain experience and knowledge. Whereas the students own schools don’t offer nearly as much as WHYY does. This is a problem because it leaves only a small portion of the youth to gain more experience in media literacy which everyone should have.

5. Buckingham & Harvey Key Points “Student production in media classrooms often takes the form of simulation, in which students are required to produce small-scale artifacts for a specified audience. This approach is designed to encourage students to reflect on the choices they have made during the production process - an activity which typically occurs in written form, by means of the 'production log' or self-evaluative 'commentary'. Yet evidence suggests that this kind of writing is rarely done well: it is something that students often perceive as a necessary duty imposed by the teacher, or even as a kind of pay-off for the more pleasurable experience of production” (Buckingham & Harvey p. 174) I disagree with this paragraph, because from my own experiences at WHYY I have seen the students do “simulation” work. They took it as a way to learn and practice as a sort of warm-up for what was to come with their final projects. They did not see it as a duty to anyone, because they are there to learn and get unforgettable experiences so they work to their best ability.

6. WHYY Youth Media Awards

7. Buckingham & Harvey Key Points Cont. “If young people are to use media language to communicate, they must inevitably utilize the forms of language that are available to them.” (Buckingham & Harvey p. 183) • I found this very important and valuable for everyone to know, because how you use any from of media can determine what kind of message your trying to send out. • It is not mainly what your are trying to say but how you say it through media such as in films. The way you edit, use sounds and narrate can change the message.