Digital diversions : youth culture in the age of multimedia
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Digital diversions : youth culture in the age of multimedia
(Media, education and culture)
UCL Press, c1998
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographic references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9781857288568
Description
This work explores the diverse ways in which young people are active social agents in the production of youth culture in the digital age. It collects an international range of empirical accounts describing the ways in which young people utilize and appropriate new technology. The contributors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives including cultural studies, social anthropology and feminism.
Table 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
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9781857288575
Description
This work explores the diverse ways in which young people are active social agents in the production of youth culture in the digital age. It collects an international range of empirical accounts describing the ways in which young people utilize and appropriate new technology. The contributors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives including cultural studies, social anthropology and feminism.
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