Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media

This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field.

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Patrick Alexander, University of Oxford, UK Carles Feixa, University of Lleida, Spain Rosalind Gill, King's College London, UK Kathrin Hörschelmann, University of Durham, UK Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Notre Dame, USA Ofra Koffman, King's College London, UK Ritty Lukose, New York University, USA Angela McFarlane, Kings College London, UK Sunaina Maira, University of California, USA Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University, UK Hilary Pilkington, University of Manchester, UK Oriol Romani, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain Elisabeth Soep, Youth Radio, USA Helen Thornham, University of Leeds, UK Kyong Yoon, University of British Columbia, Canada

Inhalt
Introduction 1. 'What Time is Now?' Researching Youth and Culture Beyond the 'Birmingham School'; Christine Griffin 2. Youth and Globalization: Changing Trajectories of Culture and Politics; Ritty A. Lukose 3. Historicize This! Contextualism in Youth Media Studies; Mary Celeste Kearney 4. 'My Whole Life is Here': Tracing Journeys through 'Skinhead'; Hilary Pilkington 5. From Local Gangs to Global Tribes: The Latin Kings and Queens Nation in Catalonia; Carles Feixa and Oriol Romani 6. Dissenting Citizenship: South Asian Muslim Youth in the U.S. after 9/11; Sunaina Maira 7. Looking East: Young Koreans Consuming Japanese Media in the Intra-Asian Youthscape; Kyong Yoon 8. Learning to Act Your Age: 'Age Imaginaries' and Media Consumption in an English Secondary School; Patrick Alexander 9. Charver Kids and Pram-face Girls: Working Class Youth, Representation and Embodied Performance; Mary Jane Kehily and Anoop Nayak 10. Youth Media and its Global Digital Afterlife; Elisabeth Soep 11. Claiming Content and Constructing Users: User-Generated Content and BBC Blast; Helen Thornham and Angela McFarlane 12. Selling Youth: the Paradoxical Empowerment of the Young Consumer; David Buckingham 13. Youth Citizenship Beyond Consensus: Examining the Role of Satire and Humour for Critical Engagements in Citizenship Education; Kathrin Horschelmann and Elisabeth El Refaie 14. 'i matter. and so does she': Girl Power, (Post)Feminism and the Girl Effect; Ofra Koffman and Rosalind Gill 15. Politics, Identity, Representation and UK Asian Suburban Youth: Voices from the Margins; Rupa Huq Conclusion