Youth, identity, and digital media / edited by David Buckingham.

"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 fami...

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Other Authors: Buckingham, David, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
Series:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing identity / David Buckingham
  • Imaging, keyboarding, and posting identities : young people and new media technologies / Sandra Weber and Claudia Mitchell
  • Consumer citizens online : structure, agency, and gender in online participation / Rebekah Willett
  • Questioning the generational divide : technological exoticism and adult construction of online youth identity / Susan C. Herring
  • Producing sites, exploring identities : youth online authorship / Susannah Stern
  • Why youth (heart) social network sites : the changing place of digital media in teenage social life / Danah Boyd
  • Mobile identity : youth, identity and mobile communication media / Gitte Stald
  • Leisure is hard work : digital practices and future competences / Kirsten Drotner
  • Mixing the digital, social and cultural : learning, identity and agency in youth participation / Shelley Goldman, Meghan McDermott, and Angela Booker.