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Youth Political Participation

STS.080 · Science, Technology, and Society, Urban Studies and Planning · Undergraduate · Spring 2016

Prof. Jennifer S Light

MIT · Tier 1

This course places contemporary youth activities in perspective by surveying young American’s political participation over the past 200 years. Each week, students will look at trends in youth political activism during a specific historical period, as well as what difference—if any—youth media production and technology use (radio, music, automobiles, ready-made clothing) made in determining the course of events. A central theme in accounts of political participation by those who have not yet rea…

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Prof. Jennifer S Light. STS.080 Youth Political Participation. Spring 2016. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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