Book chapter
Love Punks: Digital Creativity and Young People Making a Difference
Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring Programs and Relationships: Enhancing Practice and Research, pp.327-344
Emerald Publishing Limited
2014
Abstract
The Love Punks—aka, a group of Aboriginal young people from Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara—have wild imaginations, too much energy to sit still for longer than two minutes and have been quietly taking the digital animation world by storm over the past two years. Eleven-year old Ashton Munda, aka " Birdman, " just had 1.25 litres of Coke and a bag of mixed lollies for lunch. Ashton's wearing a big grin, looking left and right like a nervous bird. This isn't why he's called Birdman, but it certainly adds color to his character. Birdman is his " Love Punk " name in the fictional comic book series called NEOMAD. He got the name because he wears a bright yellow bird mask that we found at the local two-dollar shop. He seems to like being Birdman, so much so that
Details
- Title
- Love Punks: Digital Creativity and Young People Making a Difference
- Authors/Creators
- Stuart CampbellDave Palmer - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Contributors
- Frances K. Kochan (Editor)Andrea M. Kent (Editor)Andre M. Green (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring Programs and Relationships: Enhancing Practice and Research, pp.327-344
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Identifiers
- 991005872042307891
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Information Age Publishing
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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