TCR Booktalk: Not Your Parents' Politics

Lunch provided.

Join Prof. Ioana Literat, author of Not Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People’s Political Expression on Social Media (Oxford University Press, 2024, co-authored with Neta Kligler-Vilenchik) to discuss how young people experiment with their political voice online. The conversation will be moderated by Teachers College Record’s Executive Editor, Prof. Nancy Lesko, and will also include a distinguished panel of experts, including Prof. Beth Rubin, Professor of Social Studies Education at TC.

This thought-provoking discussion will explore how, in considering social media as a space for youth political expression, we need to put aside conventional expectations about the forms that political expression should take. Our panel will delve into the varied ways young people engage with political issues on social media platforms, what it means to take youth political voice seriously, and what the stakes are for political socialization and democratic participation.

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