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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463745003321

Autore

Lange Patricia G.

Titolo

Kids on YouTube : technical identities and digital literacies / / Patricia G. Lange

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42572-6

1-315-42573-4

1-61132-937-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

004.67/8083

Soggetti

Internet and children

Internet - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2014 by Left Coast Press, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Introduction: Ways with Video; Chapter 2 - Video-Mediated Friendships: Specialization and Relational Expertise; Chapter 3 - Girl Geeking Out on Youtube; Chapter 4 - Mediated Civic Engagement; Chapter 5 - Video-Mediated Lifestyles; Chapter 6 - Representational Ideologies; Chapter 7 - On Being Self-Taught; Chapter 8 - Conclusion; Appendix - Studying YouTube: An Ethographic Approach; References; Index; About The Author

Sommario/riassunto

The mall is so old school-these days kids are hanging out on YouTube, and depending on whom you ask, they're either forging the digital frontier or frittering away their childhoods in anti-intellectual solipsism. Kids on YouTube cuts through the hype, going behind the scenes to understand kids' everyday engagement with new media. Debunking the stereotype of the self-taught computer whiz, new media scholar and filmmaker Patricia G. Lange describes the collaborative social networks kids use to negotiate identity and develop digital literacy on the 'Tube. Her long-term ethnographic studies