Media products for young people
Texts and contexts
in the World Northern and Southern Regions
Who we are
The project Glocal Youth, carried out with the support of the European Union, has been realised by a team of researchers and intercultural operators coming from different European countries:
Lai momo - Italy
Centre Audiovisuel Liège - Belgium
Grupo Comunicar - Spain
Centro de investigação e de comunicação cientifica - Portugal
Who do we address?
Teachers and educators can find on this web site practical tools to organize and develop
classes of education to media and interculture, ideally with boys and girls from 14 to 20 of age. The didactic units, written in
different languages, could also represent valid resources for the teaching of foreign languages.
Boys and girls can explore Glocal Youth web site and discover new and apparently remote media
products, confronting with realities different from their own.
They will improve their knowledge of boys and girls like them, but living in other countries, both in Europe and in the developing
world, finding out what they read, write and watch. They will be able to come nearer to the other, to become familiar to what is
different from them.
Whoever is interested in education to media and interculture can find on this web site resources
to approach these issues. Moreover, Glocal Youth presents the opportunity to deepen the knowledge of Southern countries
through their media.
What can you find in this web site?
Glocal Youth is an international initiative, aimed to foster dialogue and exchange between different countries and cultures from
World Southern and Northern regions. Therefore, Glocal Youth speaks many languages:English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese.
Some texts have a multilingual version, while in other cases we have left the original version, in order to preserve the authenticity
of the original expression and to encourage linguistic learning.
In this web site you will find the results of Glocal Youth research:
- Didactic units:the data base with all the case studies analysed in the research.
- Media education tools: media education pills and hints to organise didactic modules with the students.
- Theoretical texts:: articles, essays and reports focalised on the relation between youth, media and interculture.
- Auto-productions: the media products realised by boys and girls themselves.
Glocal Youth is a dynamic web site: it doesn't end with the presentation of what has already been done, but it intends to be a
place for dialogue and to enrich with the contribution of whoever wants to participate in the project.
You have at your disposal several instruments to interact with Glocal Youth:
- New media analysis: we invite teachers, educators, boys and girls, to apply the proposed analysis methods to new media products and to send the results to Glocal Youth, in order to keep on enriching the data base.
- New auto-productions: Glocal Youth takes in great consideration the media products realised by the students themselves and it remains open to new texts.
- Newsletter: to be informed about the progress of Glocal Youth project and about news regarding media education and intercultural knowledge.
- Links: Glocal Youth proposes to online users to contact directly institutions, media, associations, providing links to hundreds of web sites.
