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

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