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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131439003321

Autore

Leurs Koen

Titolo

Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0 : Migrant Youth 2.0 / / Koen Leurs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2015

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

90-485-2304-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Collana

MediaMatters

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Mass media - Netherlands

Ethnic mass media

Digital media - Social aspects - Netherlands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Appendix: pages 287-313.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of diagrams -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Methodological trajectory -- 2. Voices from the margins on Internet forums -- 3. Expanding socio-cultural parameters of action using Instant messaging -- 4. Selfies and hypertextual selves on social networking sites -- 5. Affective geographies on YouTube -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Meet the informants -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.