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Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web

Jonathan Alexander

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The author argues that many youth are using the internet to experiment with and deploy a number of surprising rhetorical strategies. These can tell us much about how they envision these new communications technologies and the emerging literacy practices they are using to engage that technology.

The volume examines both the politics embedded in the representations of youth and technology and the actual practices of communication and meaning making of "digital youth". To approach the subject, the author draws on the work of three fields of critical inquiry--cultural studies, subcultural studies, and the emerging field of cyberculture studies--to generate a series of questions for critically analyzing various literacy practices performed on and with the Web.

Methodologically, the book proceeds as a series of "confrontations" between youth and their representation, particularly with regard to how "digital youth" are figured in relationship to and use technology. Then the author examines, through a series of case studies, how some of these "digital youth" actually use technology to refigure themselves--often in contra-distinction to their "mythological" representation by others. In the process, the book offers a complex but telling portrait of the use of communications technologies, particularly the Web, and the kinds of literacies that some youth are developing with those communication technologies.

Language: English

Pages: 424

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)

Release: August 29, 2022

ISBN: 157273650X

ISBN 13: 9781572736504

Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web

Jonathan Alexander

2.5/5 ( ratings)

The author argues that many youth are using the internet to experiment with and deploy a number of surprising rhetorical strategies. These can tell us much about how they envision these new communications technologies and the emerging literacy practices they are using to engage that technology.

The volume examines both the politics embedded in the representations of youth and technology and the actual practices of communication and meaning making of "digital youth". To approach the subject, the author draws on the work of three fields of critical inquiry--cultural studies, subcultural studies, and the emerging field of cyberculture studies--to generate a series of questions for critically analyzing various literacy practices performed on and with the Web.

Methodologically, the book proceeds as a series of "confrontations" between youth and their representation, particularly with regard to how "digital youth" are figured in relationship to and use technology. Then the author examines, through a series of case studies, how some of these "digital youth" actually use technology to refigure themselves--often in contra-distinction to their "mythological" representation by others. In the process, the book offers a complex but telling portrait of the use of communications technologies, particularly the Web, and the kinds of literacies that some youth are developing with those communication technologies.

Language: English

Pages: 424

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)

Release: August 29, 2022

ISBN: 157273650X

ISBN 13: 9781572736504

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