Youth Media and Youth Movements: Organizing, Innovation, Liberation

Sasha Constanza-Chock, chair of the "Youth Media and Youth Movements: Organizing, Innovation, Liberation" track of DML2013, shares his thoughts on the myth of youth political apathy.

"Youth movements frequently operate outside the existing channels of political participation. That's one of the reasons, I think, why young people are dismissed as apolitical or apathetic. They may be organizing in spaces that don't look like politics to academics or to political consultants. [...] Young people organize and mobilize through ad hoc networks."