Music as youth empowerment: creating connection to self and others
MUSICONNECT aims to quantitatively assess music's role in youth empowerment and social connection through innovative research methods involving 5000 participants aged 15-25.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Can music solve global challenges, lead to improved connection and empowerment, and foster an inclusive society? I introduce music engagement as a ubiquitous daily resource to advance a critical capacity in a modern world: youth ability to connect with self and others.
The Challenge of Assessment
The challenge of assessing music as a human resource is that it functions at emotional, bodily, and situated levels of experience that are difficult to objectively measure. However, such aspects are integral to state-of-the-art conceptions of human cognition.
Advancements in Research
Further, advancements in empirical research now enable their quantitative assessment. In MUSICONNECT, I will conduct groundbreaking research to address the emotional-bodily-situated nature of music, to conceptualize and objectively measure how, when, and for whom music engagement functions as empowerment.
Work Packages
Three dialogical work packages will address music as:
- Emotional self-regulation
- Embodied interaction
- Situated engagement
Participant Demographics
Young people (N = 5000, aged 15-25) with diverse backgrounds will participate in studies ranging from surveys to experiments.
Methodology
I will implement and develop cutting-edge methods to quantify the “unmeasurable” aspects of music, including:
- Ecologically valid experience sampling of real-time listening experiences
- Physiological measures
- Computational music feature analyses
- Optical motion capture
- Deep learning techniques (deep pose estimation)
- Digital ethnography
- Psychometric assessment
Expected Outcomes
Results will revolutionize the scientific capacity to address music engagement as testable, falsifiable, and evidence-based practice. Breakthrough knowledge will be created on the mechanisms of action through which music functions as empowerment and how the effectiveness of this is determined by the interplay of musical, individual, situational, and cultural factors.
Practical Applications
Findings can advise educational, preventive, or social programs that aim to support youth in building their self-regulatory competence and social connections in today’s world.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
Subsidiebedrag | € 1.983.056 |
Totale projectbegroting | € 1.983.056 |
Tijdlijn
Startdatum | 1-8-2022 |
Einddatum | 31-7-2027 |
Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTOpenvoerder
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