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Zusatztext This is a fascinating and thought provoking volume on youth engagement with digital technology and one that is genuinely transnational and transdisciplinary in flavour. Studies of gaming! video production and social media show how new technologies are woven into the lives of young people! supporting their developing sense of agency and civic engagement. An important contribution to the field.Guy Merchant! Professor of Literacy in Education!Sheffield Hallam University! UK. Informationen zum Autor Michalis Kontopodis is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK. Christos Varvantakis is a Research Fellow at the School of Education & Social Work, University of Sussex, UK. Christoph Wulf is Professor for Anthropology and Education at Free University Berlin, Germany. Klappentext This book explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective. With interdisciplinary contributions from international experts, this collection shows that the differentiation between an offline world and an online world is inapplicable to the lives of most young people. It examines which new anthropological, and cultural-historical conditions and changes arise in connection with the widespread presence of digital media in the lives of the networked teens. The volume demonstrates the pedagogic potential of digital media to achieve inclusive and quality education for all. However it also analyses the digital productions and virtual communication of young people in the context of economic crisis, showing the great political potential of digital culture. This collection also represents an innovative contribution to virtual research methods, introducing research carried out using methods which traverse the boundaries between youth life online and youth life offline, so as to examine how digital and mobile technologies mediate young people's communication with each other and with the world. Zusammenfassung Global Youth in Digital Trajectories explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective. Representing an innovative contribution to virtual research methods! this book presents research carried out in areas as diverse as Greece! the Netherlands! Germany! Brazil! Russia! and India. The volume examines which new anthropological! and cultural-historical conditions and changes arise in connection with the widespread presence of digital media in the lives of the networked teens. Indeed! it is highlighted that the differentiation between an offline world and an online world is inapplicable to the lives of most young people. Exploring youth's imaginary productions! personal sense-making processes and cross-media dialogues in today's multimedia worlds! Global Youth in Digital Trajectories will be of particular interest to undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of sociology! anthropology! education studies! media research and cultural studies. It may also appeal to practitioners in social work and schools.URL for circulation: www.routledge.com/9781138236035 Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Exploring Global Youth in Digital Trajectories Michalis Kontopodis, Christos Varvantakis & Christoph Wulf Chapter 1: Digital Identity Building: A Dialogue with Berlin Technology & Computer Science Students Nika Daryan & Christoph Wulf Chapter 2: Young People, Facebook and Pedagogy: Recognizing Contemporary Forms of Multimodal Text Making Jeff Bezemer & Gunther Kress Chapter 3: Playing Sports with Nintendo Wii in Berlin: Technography, Interactivity & Imagination Nino Ferrin & Michalis Kontopodis Chapter 4: Digital Filmmaking as a Means for the Development of Reflection: A Case Study of a Disabled University Student in Moscow Olga Rubtsova & Natalya Ulanova Ch...
