GenZ is a Citizen Media Project about Media Freedoms.
GenZ is about young people and their views on the media, and the freedoms media may provide – or restrict.
Young voices tend to be ignored, or at best, drowned out by the stories and agendas that institutions consider to be important and worthy of being featured on ‘the media’ – as news, or opinion content pieces. What we used to consider to be ‘the media’ has changed radically because of the Internet, social platforms and the disruptive technologies we use in everyday life. While ‘media freedom’ continues to be associated with the work of journalists reporting freely as an indicator of ‘democracy’, in practice mainstream media – once the owners of print, TV and radio media platforms – now have to co-exist with information that filters in from sources that rely on user-generated content from citizen media.
Through this platform you may contribute content about the media we use in our everyday lives. How media may contribute to increased freedoms within our society. Or how media is now disconnected from what used to be called ‘the fourth estate’.
