ABSTRACT
This chapter explains why in what follows and address where and how youth media learning practices are contributing to the work of remediating democracy. It indicates various global examples and then detail the development of a youth digital media ecology in one Canadian city, including the pathways to the local media reform movement that have emerged through the performative work, networks and gateways this media learning ecology enables. The chapter argues that if these and like connections are hardly secure, there is evidence that various robust ecologies of youth media production can help to incubate media reform movements, by helping young people to arrive on the public stage in ways that fortify and lend support to media democracy. Associations between youth media production and media reform are in fact complicated and often hard to find, map and reproduce. The linkages between community youth media scenes and the development of media reform movements are hardly straightforward.
