[Commlist] New Book: Youth Power in Precarious Times: Reimagining Civic Participation

*New book: /Youth Power in Precarious Times: Reimagining Civic 
Participation /(Duke University Press), by Dr. Melissa Brough.*

Does youth participation hold the potential to change entrenched systems 
of power and to reshape civic life? In /Youth Power in Precarious 
Times/ Melissa Brough examines how the city of Medellín, Colombia, 
offers a model of civic transformation forged in the wake of violence 
and repression. She responds to a pressing contradiction in the world at 
large, where youth political participation has become a means of 
commodifying digital culture amid the ongoing disenfranchisement of 
youth globally. Brough focuses on how young people's civic participation 
online and in the streets in Medellín was central to the city's 
transformation from having the world's highest homicide rates in the 
early 1990s to being known for its urban renaissance by the 2010s. 
Seeking to distinguish commercialized digital interactions from genuine 
political participation, Brough uses Medellín's experiences with youth 
participation—ranging from digital citizenship initiatives to the voices 
of community media to the beats of hip-hop culture—to show how young 
people can be at the forefront of fostering ecologies of artistic and 
grassroots engagement in order to reshape civic life.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. From Participation to Polycultural Civics
2. Digitizing the Tools of Engagement
3. "We Think about the City Differently"
4. "Medellín, Governable and Participatory
5. Polycultural Civics in the Digital Age

For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke 
University Press at a 30% discount please visit Youth Power in 
Precarious Times: Reimagining Civic Participation 
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/youth-power-in-precarious-times> and enter 
the coupon code*E20BROGH*at checkout.

*Melissa Brough* is Assistant Professor of Communication & Technology in 
the Department of Communication Studies. Her research focuses on the 
relationships between digital communication, civic/political engagement 
and social change. Much of her work considers the role of communication 
technology in the social, cultural, and political lives of youth from 
historically disenfranchised groups. Her research has been published in 
Social Media + Society, Mobile Media and Communication, the 
International Journal of Communication, andthe Johns Hopkins Guide to 
Digital Media, among others. Her first book, Youth Participation in 
Precarious Times: The Power of Polycultural Civics (2020),is now 
available from Duke University Press.



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