Youth, Identity, and Digital Media
Cambridge: MIT Press (2008), ix, 206 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: John D. and Cathrine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
ISBN 978-0-262-52483-4
"This volume the consequences of digital media use for young people's individual and social identities. The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They look at the emergence of new genres and forms, from SMS and instant messaging to home pages, blogs, and social networking sites. They discuss such topics as “girl power” online, the generational digital divide, young people and mobile communication, and the appeal of the “digital publics” of MySpace, considering whether these media offer young people genuinely new forms of engagement, interaction, and communication." (Back cover)
Introducing Identity / David Buckingham, 1
PART I: OVERVIEWS
Imaging, Keyboarding, and Posting Identities: Young People and New Media Technologies / Sandra Weber and Claudia Mitchell, 25
Consumer Citizens Online: Structure, Agency, and Gender in Online Participation / Rebekah Wiliett, 49
Questioning the Generational Divide: Technological Exoticism and Adult Constructions of Online Youth Identity / Susan C. Herring, 71
PART II: CASE STUDIES
Producing Sites, Exploring Identities: Youth Online Authorship / Susannah Stern, 95
Why Youth Love Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life / Danah Boyd, 119
Mobile Identity: Youth, Identity, and Mobile Communication Media / Gitte Staid, 143
PART III: LEARNING
Leisure Is Hard Work: Digital Practices and Future Competencies / Kirsten Drotner, 167
Mixing the Digital, Social, and Cultural: Learning, Identity, and Agency in Youth Participation / Shelley Goldman, Angela Booker, and Meghan McDermott, 185
PART I: OVERVIEWS
Imaging, Keyboarding, and Posting Identities: Young People and New Media Technologies / Sandra Weber and Claudia Mitchell, 25
Consumer Citizens Online: Structure, Agency, and Gender in Online Participation / Rebekah Wiliett, 49
Questioning the Generational Divide: Technological Exoticism and Adult Constructions of Online Youth Identity / Susan C. Herring, 71
PART II: CASE STUDIES
Producing Sites, Exploring Identities: Youth Online Authorship / Susannah Stern, 95
Why Youth Love Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life / Danah Boyd, 119
Mobile Identity: Youth, Identity, and Mobile Communication Media / Gitte Staid, 143
PART III: LEARNING
Leisure Is Hard Work: Digital Practices and Future Competencies / Kirsten Drotner, 167
Mixing the Digital, Social, and Cultural: Learning, Identity, and Agency in Youth Participation / Shelley Goldman, Angela Booker, and Meghan McDermott, 185
