Mediated Youth Cultures : The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Youth, Cultural Practice and Media Technologies....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-10 Youth Identities in a Digital Age: The Anchoring Role of Friends in Young People’s Approaches to Online Identity Expression....Pages 11-25 Mediating Experiences of ‘Growing Up’ on Facebook’s Timeline: Privacy, Ephemerality and the Reflexive Project of Self....Pages 26-41 Young People and Mediated Private Space....Pages 42-58 Ending Up Online: Interrogating Mediated Youth Drinking Cultures....Pages 59-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-76 Rethinking ‘Virtual’ Youth: Young People and Life Writing....Pages 77-94 The ‘Designs Industry’: Girls Play with Production and Power on Israeli Blogs....Pages 95-113 Youth, Social Media and Transnational Cultural Distribution: The Case of Online K-pop Circulation....Pages 114-129 Young People’s Musical Engagement and Technologies of Taste....Pages 130-145 Understanding Everyday Uses of Music Technologies in the Digital Age....Pages 146-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-164 Women, Sport and New Media Technologies: Derby Grrrls Online....Pages 165-181 Getting Bodied with Beyoncé on YouTube....Pages 182-196 ‘Activating’ Young People in the Production of Virtual Worlds....Pages 197-212 Flash Mobs and Zombie Shuffles: Play in the Augmented City....Pages 213-231 Back Matter....Pages 233-242 "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. The collection, drawing on research conducted with young people into their social and cultural lives, provides readers with a deep, fine-grained understanding of how youth culture circulates online. It is clear that, although the internet affords young people with new opportunities and risks, many of the youth cultures covered in this collection are not 'new' in themselves, but are instead mediated - played out - in new, and imaginative forms."-- Provided by publisher This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as 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.