Archive for the ‘Youth Media’ Category

Today's Youth Advisory Board post is from Caroline Marques who'd like to show some love to a worthy teen-centric arts mag and website. I'll let her take it from here. Remember you can contact our board directly via email at…

The folks at Flip Video sent me a note last week right before Thanksgiving asking if I could help them get the word out about their pro-social initiative. I don't think I've been this excited about posting something in a…

Next month Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, and Howcast will sponsor a summit to mobilize young people against violence and oppression. It will take place at Columbia Law School from December 3-5, bringing together leaders of youth organizations from around the world.…

Back in April, I posted about a site from a collective of younger people attempting to rename their generation…and publish a collection of voices they felt reflected "The Splinter Generation." They just published a collection of these voices online. From…

Ypulse has partnered with Alexander Steed (Alex), a Gen Yer planning an ambitious journey across the U.S. to interview other young activists who are tapping into technology to help create social change. This is the first of a series of posts…

In Totally Wired, I wrote about cyberbullying as it relates to tweens and teens, but also in the context of our broader "culture of mean." At this point we're all familiar with the concept of anonymity on the Web — how it…

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Yet another community for teens (Teens In Tech) is launching in alpha mode today. What sets this one apart from the rest is that the founder and CEO is a teen himself, giving him an unbeatable…

This has been a long time coming — over the past four years, we've had teen bloggers post on Ypulse (Julia, Katie, Kate and Monica) as well as several guest posts (and now staff, i.e. Casey!) who are indeed part…

Just in case you need to be reminded that teens are indeed creating copious amounts of content online as well as pursuing other entrepreneurial ventures, I'm rounding up several links sent to me over the weekend.

First up, the folks at…

SXSW is winding down for me — we had a fun party last night at Cafe Mundi. The teens from The Cypher performed their hearts out as did Blues Mafia, impressing all the adults in the audience. I think we infused…