This book examines youth media practices on social media, introducing the concept of connective journalism as a precursor to collective political action.

Lynn Schofield Clark is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. She is author of The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age (2013) and From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media and the Supernatural (2005) and is co-author of Media, Home and Family (2004). She has received numerous awards for her writing and her community engaged research, and has held affiliations with the University of Copenhagen and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her research has been cited in the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and in other national and international media venues. She has worked with young people as a teacher, mentor, and researcher for more than twenty years.

Introduction: young people and the future of news; 1. Young people, journalism and politics; 2. Connective journalism; 3. Hope and disillusionment with legacy news; 4. Young people producing and consuming news; 5. Connective journalism and the formation of youthful publics and counterpublics; 6. Youth citizen journalism: the connective journalism practices of participation; 7. Moving forward: what we can do; Methodological appendix.