Stuart Poyntz

Voices of young people are essential in civic discourse about thriving futures. Yet dialogue can be complicated when the experiences of adults and young people are vastly different, for example in school spaces designed by adults in cities designed for adults. Vertical, highrise inner city schools represent this intersection. A new genre of school in Australia, vertical schools symbolise aspirations for young people and livable cities as designed by adults. This paper draws from data collected in the Thriving in Vertical Schools project to explore the importance of affective learning atmospheres for students, and the value of digital stories to prompt dialogue between young people and adults. 204 secondary students created 96 one-minute digital stories about what it takes to thrive in vertical schools. A close analysis of 4 representative videos shows how students communicated a wide range of affective, embodied experiences and used the friction inherent within digital narratives to highlight issues of importance, which promoted dialogue with adults in audio-recorded screening discussions. The power of digital stories to mediate civic discourse with adults, and new insights like the importance of unscripted, edge spaces as spaces for young people to learn to thrive, have implications for thriving schools and cities.

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪

Prue Miles, Kylie Boltin, @spoyntz.bsky.social and Jill Willis explored how #videostorytelling could be used to convey students' #affect toward #verticalschools, informing decision-makers in the process.

Read more: tinyurl.com/y6s99nu2

Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools Voices of young people are essential in civic discourse about thriving futures. Yet dialogue can be complicated when the experiences of adults and young people are vastly different, for example in ...

Very happy to share a new article with friends in Australia.

Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

God damn. Of course it’s Shakespeare making sunsetting medium stunningly relevant again.

As a non-American, I think it's also fascinating because these characters are versions of Americans we love, people who care, people who are remarkably competent, complex, imperfect and yet they can love. They are broken and yet they carry on, they are diverse yet a collective. A relentless humanity

Join SFU CERi in TWO WEEKS for the launch of Critical Futures: Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation, edited by School of Communication professor @spoyntz.bsky.social, Am Johal and Kari Grain.

Register now: www.sfu.ca/ceri/events/...

A Vital Bridge Linking Higher Ed to the Downtown Eastside | The Tyee When universities partner with underserved communities, both can win. The Carnegie Learning Centre is a model.

A Vital Bridge Linking Higher Ed to the Downtown Eastside via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

🔊 Did you hear about SFU's Demshot Challenge yet?

If you have an idea that could strengthen trust, participation, or social cohesion in Canadian democracy, SFU wants to hear from you!

📆 Launch event: Tuesday, Jan 27, 6–7 PM (all undergrad + grad students welcome)
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Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash

This should be illegal for a Canadian company www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Many of us left the 60,000 or so followers who read & spread the work that is our livelihood (freelancers often drive their own traffic) because we won’t write the content that fuels a hate site. Yet my MP & Prime Minister still post on Musk’s Stormfront lite with integrated CSAM generator platform.

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US

Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The Liberal government’s new immigration levels plan is a disappointing retreat from Canada’s history as a welcoming, inclusive country. Instead of strengthening families and communities, it closes doors and divides people. 1/

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

Saw this the other day, and yes!

I heard him read a poem from book and speak about it on the weekend on CBC. I then brought this to start our week together at CERi. Incredible embrace of living

That is truly shite. Take best of care

Despite the unending doubtmongering – especially from MAGA / MAHA universe – studies continue to show COVID vaccines have significant benefits & an impressive safety profile.

Good sum by ‪@unbiasedscipod.bsky.social‬ of one recent study👇

Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!

It's like he's talking about the Klingons!

Congratulations to CMNS professor Fred Lesage, an award recipient of the SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants Competition - Envisioning Governance Systems that Work. His project is on Creating Data Publics for Governance in collaboration with Professor Daniel Ashton (University of Southampton).

Canada has dramatically higher transit modeshare than the US is something people clearly need to hear much more often.

There's still time to apply to this Postdoctoral job opportunity. Don't miss out!

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

This is a shocking and disastrous development. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Representing SFU proudly at the IAMCR Conference in Singapore!

Pictured left to right, front to back: Dr. Anis Rahman, Monica Yousofi, Hoornaz Keshavarzian, Jimena Abreu Fernandez, Diana Limbaga, Dr. Ahmed Al-Rawi, Dr. Taeyoung Kim, Dr. Byron Hauck, Katya Letunovskaya.

Brilliant

Why queer-themed shows evoke a bittersweet nostalgia for missed childhood moments Media help us imagine parallel lives and even reconstruct our past. Late-bloomers may feel queer anemoia as they grapple with questions of what could have been.

Written by my friend, Dr. Rena Bivens, please read: theconversation.com/why-queer-th...

This framing is just malpractice from what was very recently one of the two greatest papers in America

Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) Research on digital inequality tends to collapse people above a certain age into one “older adults” category, seemingly assuming that this is one homogeneous group when it comes to internet uses. Drawing on national survey data of adults in the United ...

New CJC! cjc.utppublishing.com/journal/cjc

Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) Background: Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is a significant problem for young people and is on the rise in Canada. Young people from marginalized groups are at greater risk of TFSV victimization, and urgent support from schools is needed.

cjc.utppublishing.com/toc/cjc/50/2

Reach out to Am Johal in Vancouver, am_johal@sfu.ca. let him know our connection