Digital passages: migrant youth 2.0 diaspora, gender and youth cultural intersections
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's the questio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2015]©2015, 2015
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| Series: | MediaMatters
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a groundbreaking analysis of the ways that youth culture online interacts with issues of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnography, Koen Leurs builds an interdisciplinary portrait of online youth culture and the spaces it opens up for migrant youth to negotiate power relations and to promote intercultural understanding |
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| Item Description: | Appendix: pages 287-313 |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (319 pages |
| ISBN: | 9048523044 |