Mediated youth cultures : the internet, belonging and new cultural configurations / edited by Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia, and Brady Robards, University of Tasmania, Australia. - xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : youth, cultural practice and media technologies / Online and offline identities -- Youth identities in a digital age : the anchoring role of friends in young people's approaches to online identity expression / Mediating experiences of "growing up" on Facebook's timeline : privacy, ephemerality and the reflexive project of self / Young people and mediated private space / Ending up online : interrogating mediated youth drinking cultures / Engagement and creativity -- Rethinking "virtual" youth : young people and life writing / The "designs industry" : girls play with production and power on Israeli blogs / Youth, social media and transnational cultural distribution : the case of online K-pop circulation / Young people's musical engagement and technologies of taste / Understanding everyday uses of music technologies in the digital age / Bodies, spaces and places -- Women, sport and new media technologies : Derby Grrrls online / Getting bodied with Beyonc�e on YouTube / "Activitating" young people in the production of virtual worlds / Flash mobs and zombie shuffles : play in the augmented city / Andy Bennett (Griffith University) & Brady Robards (University of Tasmania) -- Katie Davis (University of Washington) -- Brady Robards (University of Tasmania) -- Si�an Lincoln (Liverpool John Moores University) -- Ian Goodwin (Massey University), Antonia Lyons (Massey University), Christine Griffin (University of Bath) & Tim McCreanor (Massey University) -- Kate Douglas (Flinders University) & Anna Poletti (Monash University) -- Carmel L. Vaisman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) -- Sun Jung (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) -- Melissa Avdeeff (Independent scholar) -- Rapha�el Nowak (Griffith University) -- Adele Pavlidis (Griffith University) & Simone Fullagar (Griffith University) -- Ann Werner (S�odet�orn University, Sweden) -- Liam Berriman (University of Sussex) -- Susan Bird (Victoria University). Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

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.

1137287012 9781137287014

2014497024

GBB438305 bnb

016683289 Uk


Internet and youth.
Online social networks.
Youth--Social life and customs--21st century.

HQ 799.9 .I58 / M43 2014