Digital Diversions - Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Being Young in the Digital Age, Chapter 2 Fun and Games are Serious Business, Chapter 3 Blue Group Boys Play Incredible Machine, Girls Play hopscotch: Social Discourse and Gendered Play at the Computer, Chapter 4 Digital Visions: Children’s ‘Creative’ Uses of Multimedia Technologies, Chapter 5 Making Connections: Young People and the Internet, Chapter 6 An American otaku (or, a boy’s virtual life on the Net), Chapter 7 Digital Culture—the View from the Dance Floor, Chapter 8 Hackers: Masters of Modernity and Modern Technology, Notes on Contributors, Index

About the author

Julian Sefton-Green

Summary

This work explores the diverse ways in which young people are active social agents in the production of youth culture in the digital age. The contributors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies and feminism

Product details

• Assisted by: Julian Sefton-Green (Editor), Sefton-Green Julian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.1998
• EAN: 9781857288568
• ISBN: 978-1-85728-856-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 240 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Humanities, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Age groups: adolescents, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects