Youth, Identity, And Digital Media

by Buckingham, David

• ISBN13: 9780262026352
• ISBN10: 026202635X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

As young people today grow up in a world saturated with digital media, how does it affect their sense of self and others? As they define and redefine their identities through engagements with technology, what are the implications for their experiences as learners, citizens, consumers, and family and community members? This volume addresses the consequences of digital media use for young people's individual and social identities. The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They look at the emergence of new genres and forms, from SMS and instant messaging to home pages, blogs, and social networking sites. They discuss such topics as "girl power" online, the generational digital divide, young people and mobile communication, and the appeal of the "digital publics" of MySpace, considering whether these media offer young people genuinely new forms of engagement, interaction, and communication. Contributors: Angela Booker, danah boyd, Kirsten Drotner, Shelley Goldman, Susan C. Herring, Meghan McDermott, Claudia Mitchell, Gitte Stald, Susannah Stern, Sandra Weber, Rebekah Willett.

Table of Contents

Introducing Identity	p. 1
Overviews
Imaging, Keyboarding, and Posting Identities: Young People and New Media Technologies	p. 25
Consumer Citizens Online: Structure, Agency, and Gender in Online Participation	p. 49
Questioning the Generational Divide: Technological Exoticism and Adult Constructions of Online Youth Identity	p. 71
Case Studies
Producing Sites, Exploring Identities: Youth Online Authorship	p. 95
Why Youth [love] Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life	p. 119
Mobile Identity: Youth, Identity, and Mobile Communication Media	p. 143
Learning
Leisure Is Hard Work: Digital Practices and Future Competencies	p. 167
Mixing the Digital, Social, and Cultural: learning, Identity, and Agency in Youth Participation	p. 185
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