Growing Up Online
Young People and Digital Technologies
Weber, Sandra
Dixon, Shanly
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BOOK SUMMARY
In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds are incorporating and making sense of digital technology in their everyday l
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In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds are incorporating and making sense of digital technology in their everyday lives. Contributors explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.
AUTHOR BIO
Sandra Weber is Professor of Education, Concordia University. Shanly Dixon is a PhD candidate, Concordia University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Young People and Technology: Issues and Concepts--Sandra Weber & Shanly Dixon * Growing Up with New Technologies: A Longitudinal Case Study--Sandra Weber with Julia Weber * "Im the One Who Makes the Lego Racers Go:" Virtual and Actual Space in Videogame Play--Seth Giddings * Time, Space and Embodiment in Girls Experiences of Technologies--Sandra Weber & Shanly Dixon * Computer Games: Methods, Players and Gender--Diane Carr
* Young People Constructing Identities as Game Players and as Game Designers--Caroline Pelletier * The Girls Room: Negotiating Schoolyard Friendships Online--Kelly Boudreau * Blogging: Private Writing in Public Spaces?--Brandi Bell * Childrens Experiences of Technologies: Power and Technicity--Helen Kennedy & Jon Dovey * Playing at and with Tween Culture: Consuming Popular Culture Websites as an Instance of Critical Digital Literacy--Jacqueline Reid-Walsh * Consuming Fashion and Producing Meaning through Online Paper-Doll Sites--Rebekah Willett * Surfin for Idols: Pop Girls and Digital Technology--Candis Steenbergen * Tween Culture and Digital Technologies in the Age of AIDS--Claudia Mitchell & Jacqui Reid Walsh * "There are too many of us for this to be abnormal!!!" Girls Creating Identity and Forming Community in Pro Ana/Mia Websites--Michele Polak * New Girl (and New Boy) at the Internet Café: Digital Divides/Digital Futures--Grace Sokoya & Claudia Mitchell * Contested Spaces: Public Discourses and Policy Problematics--Leslie Regan-Shade * Re-viewing Girls and New Technologies--Shanly Dixon & Sandra Weber
BOOK REVIEWS
From blogs to video games, from living rooms to internet cafés, from Africa to Canada, Growing up Online has it all. Transcending the hype and moral panic that typically pervade adult discourses about youth and media, the essays in this collection deconstruct the complexities of young peoples relationship with a range of digital technologies. More importantly, most chapters provide a space in which young people themselves tell us what it means to grow up online. We would be wise to listen.--Sharon R. Mazzarella, Professor of Communication Studies at Clemson University and editor of Girl Wide Web
 Growing Up Online provides us with a wealth of vivid images of the changing position of girls and young women as both consumers and producers in the emerging digital world. It offers a plethora of issues for further research and debate about the new possibilities-and some of the limitations-that characterize the new online cultures of information, play and social interaction.--David Buckingham, Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University of London
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 140397814X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403978141
Dewey Decimal: 025.0408342
Library of Congress: oc2008069701
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 272
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