Deadline: 31 December 2009

A website featuring multimedia work on youth and technology is launching this week out of Syracuse University's journalism school. The site, www.theyoungandthewireless.com, will feature stories on how the "Net Generation" across America have been affected by the recent rise in digital communications.

We wanted to look deeper than gadgets and into the culture of technology as it affects real young people.

Hoping to deepen our own work with content by youth themselves, we are running a video contest open to anyone under 30. We've partnered with author and researcher Don Tapscott, author of "Grown Up Digital" to offer a total of $2,000 in prize money.

The rules are simple: Students create, direct, and shoot vshort videos on how technology (cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) has affected their lives. The scope is broad, and creativity is encouraged. They post them to our YouTube site by December 31st, 2009, and they're in! Please consider adding this project to your workshop schedule or fall curriculum -- it's a great incentive for youth to reflect/respond to technology's affect on their lives and relationships.

More details are available at www.thewirelesscontest.com, or you can email Jennifer at jenniferward [at] theyoungandthewireless [dot] com.

The YouTube group can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/group/youngandthewireless

This initiative in journalism education is funded by the Carnegie and Knight foundations. For more information about the program, visit News21's main site.

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