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good friends at the Center for Media Education<\/a><\/p>\n sent me a list of youth-led civic projects that use the Internet<\/b>. Here<\/p>\n are a few great examples from their list:<\/p>\n Consumer Scrapbook <\/a>(Sponsored by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n ("By teaching information access and computer technology as tools for change,<\/p>\n this project aims to empower high school students to succeed as decision makers<\/p>\n who influence community leaders to respond to their ideas for change. Through<\/p>\n this project, young activists will learn to put their passion into action.")<\/li>\n Live<\/a> (Mission: "To empower a diverse group of youth towards leadership<\/p>\n using experience and exposure to media and technology. … HarlemLive is award<\/p>\n winning, critically acclaimed web magazine produced by teens from throughout New<\/p>\n York City".)<\/li>\n Level<\/a> ("Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago’s inner-city youth<\/p>\n in media and social change.")<\/li>\n ("WireTap is the independent information source by and for socially conscious<\/p>\n youth. We showcase investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions,<\/p>\n artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity,<\/p>\n foster dialogue and give young people a voice in the media.") <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My good friends at the Center for Media Education sent me a list of youth-led civic projects that use the Internet. Here are a few great examples from their list: Teen Consumer Scrapbook (Sponsored by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office) Flint Profiles ("By teaching information access and computer technology as tools for change, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-and-public-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression communication,<\/p>\n