In this study, we examine how youth use media production to represent, (de)legitimate, and reimagine their experiences of hypercriminalization-the pervasive complex of social practices such as racial profiling that position young men of color as "always-already criminal." We analyze two clips from a youth-produced news show called POPPYN, specifically a 2014 episode focusing on youth and the criminal justice system, using tools from recontextualization analysis and multimodal semiotics, which together allow us to index the substitutions, deletions, rearrangements, and additions of component elements of social practices. Through investigation of linguistic and multimodal processes that represent social actors, actions, and constructions of their legitimacy, this study demonstrates ways that media making can serve as a tool for youth of color to process and rewrite persistent hypercriminalizing positionings in more agentive and hopeful ways. We end by proposing implications for multimodal literacy practices and pedagogies.

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In this paper, we articulate a model for scaling Studio-Based Learning (SBL) via a Social Innovation Network (SIN) -a distributed community of design studios collaborating to solve social problems. We report findings from a case study of one SIN called Design for America (DFA), using methods of "ethnography of infrastructure" (Star, 1999) that combine interviews, surveys, and analysis of members' communication on various channels to understand the ways SBL can be orchestrated as a distributed learning community. We argue that principled design and use of cyberlearning tools and organizational routines can foster sociability and trust among members and promote routing of resources across the network, thereby alleviating orchestration challenges and infrastructuring a more effective environment for innovation and design learning.

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