The article presents the book Miradas to the academic community since and about young people in the twenty-first century (Martin M.V. and Pérez de Stéfano, L., CoC editions, 2002, Intellectual Property: 225.221). With a foreword from Rossana Reguillo, it brings together seven research around the same axis, proposing a course of some practices that show that the youth identity has been built on a local scene (La Plata — Argentina). The interest of the journey lies in the fact that it was the students of the last year of the Polimodal level who critically recorded and reflected on themselves and their peers, anchoring that analysis into a nearby daily space, reflecting them and in which they could be reflected. Positioning young people as actors able to provide answers on the different ways in which they settle in the social fabric allows them to be projected into a different, more imaginative and participatory future Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication (FPyCS)