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Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation to the United Nations Rights of the Child and, in particular, the right of the child to express identity. We demonstrate how media literacy had previously been included in curriculum, enabling opportunities to address children's rights, and propose that the absence of media education is part of an overall trend of the non-prioritisation of children's rights in England and Northern Ireland. The paper calls for media literacy to be reintroduced into primary and secondary curriculum.

Traditionally media production with young people has been characterized by an aspiration to 'give voice' or 'empower youth', but this core value is under threat. Recently, the rationale for undertaking youth media production has shifted to focus on enabling young people to acquire digital and entrepreneurial skills that serve the needs of rapidly changing creative industry/gig economy. In this paper, we challenge this rationale by sharing qualitative data from a young people's media production project run in libraries in a city in the United Kingdom where participants were invited to create video games/stories. We adopt Potter and McDougall's notion of Third Spaces as negotiated, contested and political to enable us to identify the ways in which pedagogical choices of setting, software and style of facilitation combined to support young people's critical and creative engagement with digital media and society. We reframe notions of third spaces, seeing less a bridge between linguistic and cultural domains, arguing instead that Third Spaces are productively disruptive. We conclude by proposing a new set of pedagogical principles for critical reflection in the development and funding of digital media production with young people.

There is a long history of Chinese firms raising capital on leading U.S. exchanges. These shares have proved attractive and are estimated at $1 trillion value, in spite of deep mismatches between Chinese internal approaches to corporate governance and those taken under U.S. securities regulations. Chinese listings of nonstate firms, particularly in the technology sector, had depended on a largely laissez-faire initial approach to the expansion through foreign listings, including tolerance of the opaque Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structures adopted as a means to bypass Chinese restrictions on foreign ownership. Concerns regarding data security had, however, prevented compliance by Chinese firms listed in the United States with audit inspection requirements, and these mismatches in the United States have now led to Chinese firms being on shaky ground on both sides of the U.S.-China fault-line. U.S.-listed Chinese companies have faced the looming threat of delisting under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA), enacted in response to both non-compliance with audit inspection requirements and concerns about the opaque nature of VIEs and possibilities of Chinese state control. Admittedly, fears of mass delistings under the HFCAA in the near future have been allayed by Chinese agreement as to U.S. audit inspections, and the 2022 finding of two Chinese firms to be compliant with U.S. regulations. There remains, however, heightened levels of Chinese state involvement in the affairs of nonstate companies with further potential to bring strain, as Communist Party policies have changed dramatically in recent years, alongside heightened geopolitical tensions. The data concerns that had prevented audit inspections have not disappeared and, in fact, have grown. These, together with some other harmful Chinese state strategies impressed upon nonstate firms and preferences for Chinese firms to look inwards for capital, as well as a damaging trade war in semiconductors, present remaining concerns regarding investments in U.S.-listed Chinese firms. Immediate concerns regarding delistings under the HFCAA may have abated but there may be other firms for which compliance may be difficult, and there remains potential for future delistings, presenting risks for U.S. investors. These Chinese firms may find the exit voluntarily whilst the stream of U.S. listings by Chinese companies will slow. It will not yet amount to a decoupling, but investors should be wary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation to the United Nations Rights of the Child and, in particular, the right of the child to express identity. We demonstrate how media literacy had previously been included in curriculum, enabling opportunities to address children's rights, and propose that the absence of media education is part of an overall trend of the non-prioritisation of children's rights in England and Northern Ireland. The paper calls for media literacy to be reintroduced into primary and secondary curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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