The new magazine, which aims to support 10-15 year olds in the world of digital and technology, will take the form of a quarterly paper to be shared in class or with parents.
Raising digital awareness among young people at a time when half of 6th graderse owning a smartphone is a healthy goal. This is the one given by the editorial staff of Hush! Magazine with the launch of the very first digital culture magazine for teenagers. Hush! Explorethat’s its name, intends to accompany 10-15 year olds in the vast world of technologies to offer them another look at a sector which should generate 1.75 million jobs in France by 2030.
Hush! Explorea paper and inclusive magazine that is not only for “geeks”
Hush! Explore will be a 15-page, quarterly paper magazine that ” folds out for an immersive, shared reading experience with parents, friends or class “. The idea, for the team behind this project, is to offer a format that is both fun, educational and civic that would find its place in the many colleges, high schools and libraries in France. This adventure follows that of Hush! Magazine devoted to the impact of digital technology in our lives, with its 13 issues.
This new title is aimed at all young people, girls and boys, who have a close or distant interest in digital technology, whether or not they are comfortable with these new tools. The editorial insists: Hush! Explorethese are ” content for everyone, not just “geeks” “. On this Wednesday, March 8, women’s rights day, it seems good to us to emphasize that the magazine is making another bet: that of involving young girls in digital professions.
Only 10% of people working in the tech sector are women today, a figure that is not progressing or with difficulty, despite the speeches of the ecosystem and the authorities. ” Our role, media, is to transform representations to enable young people to identify with these remunerative professions of the future which will develop strongly in the years to come. That’s why Hush! Explore will be an inclusive magazine that will appeal to both girls and boys. A commitment that particularly affects us, the Chut team! made up of a majority of women “, reveals the editorial staff.
In addition to its inclusive aspect, Hush! Explore will host in its pages job sheets, many illustrations that will encourage discovery and reflection, but also infographics, comics, posters and hand-made code sets. Among the themes, environmental issues around digital technology will be widely discussed. These are all the more important at a time when ADEME and ARCEP are alerting us to the dreaded growth of the digital carbon footprint.
To deconstruct the clichés around connected life
The very first issue of Hush! Explore, entitled “La vie en Reel” (a reference to this format of short videos particularly popular among teenagers), tries to deconstruct some clichés around connected life. He recalls the tendency for the user to underestimate the importance of life online, ” even to denigrate these practices, which carries a whole host of problems “. We can notably cite cyberbullying, considered as “ less virulent than harassment in real life », or the « ignorance of the algorithms that govern the platforms » and feed on our avatars, photos, likes, nicknames, selfies and other filters.
If the teams of Hush! Explore benefit from the support of the La Poste group or the National Digital Council, and that Clubic encourages this initiative, the media nevertheless needs funding to make the production of its first issue viable (and the next ones, and perhaps even to increase periodicity). 2,500 presales are thus necessary for the release of the first issue. The teams of Hush! Magazine have launched a crowdfunding campaign on the KissKissBankBank platform, with pre-orders offered ranging from 8 to 3,000 euros. It is of course possible to offer the amount of your choice. Counterparties (first issue of Hush! Exploresubscription, etc.) are offered.
” Launching a paper magazine printed in France, under the current conditions of inflation and respecting ethics and deontology with regard to the profession of journalist, is quite a challenge. But we can make it happen thanks to you “says Hush! Explore. For the moment, 725 presales have been recorded, 32 days before the end of the campaign.
To find : The crowdfunding campaign of Chut! Explore on KissKissBankBank
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