Climate Crisis, Youth and Media: a story analysis of Geo-Doc videos as agents for social transformations
dc.contributor.advisor | Tschofen, Monique | |
dc.contributor.author | Alsop, Dylan Wallace | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-07T11:11:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-11-07T11:11:48Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2024-08-13 | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-11-07 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-11-07T11:11:46Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Communication & Culture, Joint Program with Toronto Metropolitan University | |
dc.degree.level | Master's | |
dc.degree.name | MA - Master of Arts | |
dc.description.abstract | The last three decades have witnessed paradigmatic transformations in how youth engage in climate crisis advocacy practices. My thesis offers analysis of a United Nations-endorsed policy advocacy project, The Youth Climate Report (YCR). The project comprises short youth documentaries geo-positioned on a virtual map combined with an annual report submitted to United Nations Council of parties (COP) negotiations. Inspired by the project as an initiative of “Speaking Youth to Power” (Terry, 2024), my thesis seeks to better understand, celebrate, and contribute to this initiative and more broadly to youth climate crisis documentary multimedia. Recognizing that climate crisis is in part a storytelling crisis and drawing on selected scholarship in media studies (McLuhan, Williams), youth studies (Hall, Castañeda, Foucault), and climate studies (Callison, Hulme, Solnit), I reflect on ways in which climate crisis and youth are framed and formed in stories bound up with social power relations. I analyzed a sample of YCR Geo-Doc media documentaries—20% of those available, n=130—asking two questions: How do Geo-Doc videos story climate crisis? How do Geo-Doc videos story youth? My comparative analysis reveals four influential climate stories (Impacts, Humans, Resources, and Solutions) entangled with four stories of youth (as Witnesses, as Heroes, Inheritors and as Vulnerable). My conclusion follows a political stance in which I interrogate these eight stories and alternatives and the extent to which they reproduce pre-existing stories with associated power relations thereby supporting the status quo and/or offer new ways that resist and challenge these. These discussions are more normative, seeking to identify youth climate crisis stories that are underrepresented and now urgently needed. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42469 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Communication | |
dc.subject | Climate change | |
dc.subject | Cultural anthropology | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate Justice | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth | |
dc.subject.keywords | Digital media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Geo-Doc | |
dc.subject.keywords | Story | |
dc.subject.keywords | Narrative enquiry | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate crisis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth activism | |
dc.subject.keywords | United Nations | |
dc.subject.keywords | Policy advocacy | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social transformations | |
dc.subject.keywords | Media studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental justice | |
dc.subject.keywords | Documentary filmmaking | |
dc.subject.keywords | Storytelling crisis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social power relations | |
dc.subject.keywords | Vulnerable youth | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth climate report | |
dc.subject.keywords | COP negotiations | |
dc.subject.keywords | Geographic documentary | |
dc.subject.keywords | Speaking youth to power | |
dc.subject.keywords | Narrative analysis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Comparative analysis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Power relations | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social change | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate justice | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth mobilization | |
dc.subject.keywords | Digital media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental advocacy | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate impacts | |
dc.subject.keywords | Human resources | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate solutions | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth as witnesses | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth as heroes | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth as inheritors | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth vulnerability | |
dc.subject.keywords | Narrative politics | |
dc.subject.keywords | Documentary genre | |
dc.subject.keywords | Media representation | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate documentaries | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Digital platforms | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth-led movements | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental sustainability | |
dc.subject.keywords | Participatory politics | |
dc.subject.keywords | Ageism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate communication | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social hierarchies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Ecological crisis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate narratives | |
dc.subject.keywords | Visual storytelling | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth empowerment | |
dc.subject.keywords | Narrative criticism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social transformation | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental activism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth narratives | |
dc.subject.keywords | Power dynamics | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental degradation | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth identities | |
dc.subject.keywords | Media literacy | |
dc.subject.keywords | UN-backed initiative | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate breakdown | |
dc.subject.keywords | Transformative politics | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth storytelling | |
dc.subject.keywords | Multimedia advocacy | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental documentaries | |
dc.subject.keywords | Participatory media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth documentary production | |
dc.subject.keywords | Climate crisis representation | |
dc.subject.keywords | Digital storytelling | |
dc.subject.keywords | Cultural identity | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth agency | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth-led documentaries | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social power | |
dc.subject.keywords | Media genres | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth climate media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Activist filmmaking | |
dc.subject.keywords | Documentary analysis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Digital media representation | |
dc.subject.keywords | Media discourse | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental narratives | |
dc.subject.keywords | Youth in climate crisis | |
dc.subject.keywords | Documentary media | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental advocacy films | |
dc.title | Climate Crisis, Youth and Media: a story analysis of Geo-Doc videos as agents for social transformations | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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