Mediated youth cultures
Subtitle: the internet, belonging and new cultural configurations
By: edited by Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia, and Brady Robards, University of Tasmania, Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781137287014
Subjects: Youth; Social life and customs; Online social networks; Internet and youth
Description: Andy Bennett and Brady Robards bring together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as how stories about growing up are mediated on Facebook, the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : youth, cultural practice and media technologies  -- Andy Bennett (Griffith University) & Brady Robards (University of Tasmania) -- Part 1.; title: Online and offline identities --; title: Youth identities in a digital age : the anchoring role of friends in young people's approaches to online identity expression  -- Katie Davis (University of Washington); title: Mediating experiences of "growing up" on Facebook's timeline : privacy, ephemerality and the reflexive project of self  -- Brady Robards (University of Tasmania); title: Young people and mediated private space  -- Siân Lincoln (Liverpool John Moores University); title: Ending up online : interrogating mediated youth drinking cultures  -- Ian Goodwin (Massey University), Antonia Lyons (Massey University), Christine Griffin (University of Bath) & Tim McCreanor (Massey University) -- Part 2.; title: Engagement and creativity --; title: Rethinking "virtual" youth : young people and life writing  -- Kate Douglas (Flinders University) & Anna Poletti (Monash University); title: The "designs industry" : girls play with production and power on Israeli blogs  -- Carmel L. Vaisman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); title: Youth, social media and transnational cultural distribution : the case of online K-pop circulation  -- Sun Jung (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore); title: Young people's musical engagement and technologies of taste  -- Melissa Avdeeff (Independent scholar); title: Understanding everyday uses of music technologies in the digital age  -- Raphaël Nowak (Griffith University) -- Part 3.; title: Bodies, spaces and places --; title: Women, sport and new media technologies : Derby Grrrls online  -- Adele Pavlidis (Griffith University) & Simone Fullagar (Griffith University); title: Getting bodied with Beyoncé on YouTube  -- Ann Werner (Södetörn University, Sweden); title: "Activitating" young people in the production of virtual worlds  -- Liam Berriman (University of Sussex); title: Flash mobs and zombie shuffles : play in the augmented city -- Susan Bird (Victoria University).