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This is one of two research projects examining how young people will use social media to respond to alarming future events. Melbourne is the home institution for this project. To view the KU Leuven-based partner project, click here.
This youth-focused project will undertake both an analysis of youth social media productions (via the digital platform, TikTok), as well as a survey and interviews with youth in both Australia and Europe on their experiences and intentions regarding TikTok as a form of critical public pedagogy on climate change.
The project will explore key narratives, anticipated audiences, and other aspects of whether and how youth intend for their TikTok videos to be taken up as forms of public pedagogy and solidarity building in relation to their global climate futures. In doing so, the project considers the increasingly global forms of social organisation shaped through the circulations of collective effect through digital media participation and their effects on orientations to climate change both within and across national borders. The project will engage with digital media and affect theory, critical literacies, and the environmental humanities with implications for qualitative and educational research.
A central objective of this project is the development, demonstration, and dissemination of young people’s creative productions through TikTok as a view into their situated understanding, anxieties, and imaginative solutions related to climate change, technology, and the future.
The University of Melbourne – Prof Marcia McKenzie and Dr Sarah E. Truman
KU Leuven – Prof Karin Hannes and Prof Steven Devleminck
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