Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature

This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their identities and choices as citizens in a digital culture

A timely contribution to current scholarly debates about the ideological representation of digital technology in young adult fiction Offers a compelling narrative of how digital life shapes young people's identity and activism through readings of a range of authors such as Salman Rushdie, Cory Doctorow, and Julie Ann Peters Engages the critical contemporary issue of posthumanism by providing a sophisticated reading of the complex intersection of young adult bodies with the non-organic.

Autorentext
Megan L. Musgrave is Assistant Professor of English in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Cyborg Bodies in Illness and Disability Narratives.- Cyborg Minds at Play in Participatory Cultures, or, Going Public in Private.- Gamer Guys: Playing with Civic Responsibility in Ludic Fiction.- Gamer Girls: Going Online in the Age of Misogynist Terrorism.- Imaginary Activism.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index