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Academician

EUROPEAN ACADEMY

OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

Steve Gennaro

EUASU Academician, Professor in the Humanities department at York University (Canada). He is one of the founding members of the Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies Program at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he has taught for the last two decades. He has a Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal Canada that explores intersections of media, technology, psychology, and youth identity. He completed a Postdoc in Philosophy of Education at UCLA with Dr. Douglas Kellner. Dr. Gennaro regularly publishes in areas related to the philosophy of technology, education, critical theory, and media studies, and all with a lens toward young people's lives and the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child).

Dr. Steve Gennaro is EUASU Academician, scholar and activist for children's rights. His research examines young people's play, work, activism, and agency in digital spaces and argues the importance of critical media literacy – and critical digital literacy for young people's participation in civil society. More specifically, he focuses on the relationships, activities, and situations of young people's experiences with social media. He practices a rights-based approach that incorporates ethnographic research in partnership with local school boards, NGOs, and governing bodies while using qualitative research methods. He applies critical theory with an intersectional lens to investigate young people's protection, provision, and participation rights in virtual spaces. This research provides a deeper understanding of how young people make sense of their place in civil society as citizens in an increasingly digital world. Voice and presence are essential for children's rights, and this is equally true in networked publics.

Primary Areas of Study:

Social Media, Critical Social Theory, Frankfurt School, Intersectionality, Media Studies, Philosophy of Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Philosophy of Technology, Young People, Play, Social Justice, Digital Spaces, Critical Media Literacy, Contemporary Children's Culture.

Recent Publications:

Gennaro and Miller eds: Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children’s Culture in Digital Space(s). Vernon Press. 2021.

“Neoliberalism, Democratization, and the Re-Visioning of Education” in Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Dismantling Doing Good for Profit. Ed. Anthony Nocella. Peter Lang. Co- Authored with Douglas Kellner

“Post Pandemic Pedagogy: Compassionate and Caring Course Curriculum in the Digital University” in Post Pandemic Pedagogy. Ed Joseph M. Valenzano. Co- Authored with Linda Carozza

“Digital Culture, Media, and the Challenges of Contemporary Cyborg Youth” in Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies. Eds. M. A. Peters, P. Jandricì, & S. Hayes. Springer. Co- Authored with Douglas Kellner

“Critical Theory and the Transformation of Education in the New Millennium” in Palgrave International Handbook on Critical Theories. Eds. Ali Abdi and Greg William Misiaszek. Palgrave. Co- Authored with Douglas Kellner

“Researching Youth Subcultures: A Rights Based Approach?” in Sketch a Subculture Collected Papers eds. Vitali Lunov and Maxim Lepinsky, European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 62-70.

“Is Information Knowledge in the Digital World?” in Source: Challenges of Source Evaluation in Science and Correlated Areas eds. Vitalii Lunov and Maxim Lepinsky, European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 54-60

“Re-literation and Remixing the Self on Social Media” International Academic Journal Baudrillard Now 1(2). Co- Authored with Blair Miller

“Critical Social Media Literacy in the Googleburg Galaxy” Media Literacy and Academic Research 3(2).

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Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children’s Digital Culture

This book explores the practices, relationships, consequences, benefits, and outcomes of children’s experiences with, on, and through social media by bringing together a vast array of different ideas about childhood, youth, and young people’s lives. 

These ideas are drawn from scholars working in a variety of disciplines, and rather than just describing the social construction of childhood or an understanding of children’s lives, this collection seeks to encapsulate not only how young people exist on social media but also how their physical lives are impacted by their presence on social media.

One of the aims of this volume in exploring youth interaction with social media is to unpack the structuring of digital technologies in terms of how young people access the technology to use it as a means of communication, a platform for identification, and a tool for participation in their larger social world.