Building more liveable urban place through multispecies storytelling
Neil Hart-Camus
This project develops a critical pedagogy of place with London youth, through relationship building with the city’s more-than-human inhabitants. Using participatory methods of companion-species storytelling, walking, photography, and storymaps, it develops ways in which urban young people engage with the socioecological crisis. Findings will inform transformative approaches to environmental education.
Disrupting Narratives in Rural Education: A Participatory Photovoice Exploration of Black Youth Joy in South Carolina’s “Corridor of Shame”
Christina L. Myers and Betty L. Wilson
This participatory photovoice explores how Black youth in South Carolina’s “Corridor of Shame” use material culture—objects, spaces, and creative artifacts—to define and sustain joy. Centering youth voices and visual storytelling, the project challenges deficit narratives, reframing rural education through cultural assets, resilience, and joy as resistance and transformation.
From trust trades to exploiting glitches: Children’s encounters with grey economies in Roblox
Astrid Van den Bossche
Mapping how children encounter, participate in, and shape ‘grey’ economies through digital play, this study explores the implications of gaming experiences for children’s enculturation into structurally and morally liminal digital spaces. We focus, in particular, on the prevalence of scams in children’s economic encounters on Roblox. We explore how our participants navigated the liminalities engendered by economic activity on the platform, paying specific attention to the emergence of a digital folklore, an embodied sensibility, and the negotiation of concepts such as value and labour.
Reading Futures: Imagining Childhood in Children’s Climate Fiction
Sameera Chawla
How is childhood envisioned in children’s books on climate change? Children’s climate fiction offers a panoramic view on how perceptions of childhood are evolving in the Anthropocene. This poster examines the ideologies of childhood that children’s book publishing is forwarding in a climate-changing world and their implications for climate education.
Unhealthy ads in the digital space
Sanja Golubovic
This study explores adolescents’ exposure to digital marketing of unhealthy food and drinks. Using screen capture and AI-driven brand recognition (SCANNER), we apply and validate new tools and uncover how ads shape young people’s online lives. The aim? To better understand – and ultimately improve – the digital spaces influencing youth health choices.
Why Can’t We Be Friends?: Interrogating Online Connections and Contemporary Friendships Among Disabled Young People
Kristen Tollan
Drawing on my doctoral research, my poster discusses contemporary manifestations of online (and offline) social lives, particularly as experienced by disabled young people. I interrogate multifaceted perceptions of digital friendships, explore trends in youth’s online connections, and elaborate on the evolution of this topic with preliminary results from my dissertation.