Youth Online
Subtitle: Identity and Literacy in the Digital Age (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: July 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780820478548
Subjects: Life Stages - Adolescence; General; Social Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Identity (Psychology) in adolescence; Internet; Internet and teenagers; Social aspects; Sociology
Description: "Youth Online chronicles the stories of young people from several countries - the US, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and Holland - and their interactions in online communities over a seven-year period. It examines how young people construct their identities in various social contexts: social, fantasy, role-playing; and for various social purposes: leadership, learning, power, rebellion and romance. It explores the ways youth are deploying both visual and literary cues to develop a full sense of presence online and to effectively communicate with their peers.

Using methods of textual, visual, and socio-psychological analysis, this book illuminates the ways in which young people are making sense of their own identities and their place within broader communities."--Jacket.