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Speaker
Jennifer Earl University of Delaware
Full list of speakers to be confirmed soon.
Chair
Susana Salgado University of Lisbon
This instalment of our House Series unpicks the complexities of researching youth engagement in social movements. It explores the value of existing methodologies in navigating inherent challenges and enhancing the quality of research.
Research on the engagement of young people in social movements often dispels popular myths about their political inactivity, and sometimes even challenges implicit assumptions that researchers hold about youth.
Overcoming this often requires finding ways to observe or extract information on young people’s engagement and the social, political, and media contexts in which engagement – and any disengagement – exists.
In this talk, Jennifer Earl discusses how a range of existing methods can be used to accomplish these goals and sheds light on some of the challenges of conducting such research.
The lecture will also examine the essential role that young people themselves play in interactive methods, such as interviewing, since collaborating with younger researchers may result in better-quality data.
All instalments in our House Series are FREE to attend and open to scholars from ECPR member and non-member institutions.
Jennifer Earl is Chair and Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.
Her research focuses on social movements, information technologies, and the sociology of law, with emphasis on youth activism, internet activism, social movement repression, and legal change.
Jennifer has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research on web activism from 2006 – 2011. She was also a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, and co-authored with Katrina Kimport, Digitally Enabled Social Change (MIT Press, 2013).
Her current projects include a co-authored monograph on historical shifts in protest policing best practices in the US, theoretical investigations of digital repression and the broader terrain of political repression, and an empirical investigation of youth participation in protest events in the US historically and today.
Susana Salgado is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, where she coordinates competitively funded research projects and teaches at the PhD programme in Comparative Politics. She had previously held positions at the New University of Lisbon and at the University of Oxford, as well as visiting positions in Brazil, Italy, and Australia.
Susana’s main research interests include political communication, democracy and democratization processes, populism, as well as the impact of different types of media on democratic politics. Susana’s work has a strong interdisciplinary perspective, and her approaches to these topics have been mainly comparative and mixed methods.
The House Series is FREE to attend and open to scholars from all institutions. Registration is required and you'll need a My ECPR account to register.
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