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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484449003321

Autore

Third Amanda

Titolo

Young People in Digital Society : Control Shift / / by Amanda Third, Philippa Collin, Lucas Walsh, Rosalyn Black

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9781137573698

1137573694

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Collana

Studies in Childhood and Youth, , 2731-6475

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media

Sociology

Social groups

Digital and New Media

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Contesting Control: Key Concepts -- 3. Online Safety -- 4. Digital Inclusion -- 5. Digital Citizenship -- 6. Conclusions. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the everyday to analyse how ideas about youth and cyber-safety, digital inclusion and citizenship are mobilized. Despite a growing interest in the benefits and opportunities for young people online, both ‘young people’ and ‘the digital’ continue to be constructed primarily as sites of social and cultural anxiety requiring containment and control. Juxtaposing public policy, popular educational and parental framings of young people’s digital practices with the insights from fieldwork conducted with young Australians aged 12–25, the book highlights the generative possibilities of attending to intergenerational tensions. In doing so, the authors show how a shift beyond the paradigm of control opens up towards a deeper understanding of the capacities that are generated in and through digital life for young and old alike. Young People in Digital Society will



be of interest to scholars and students in youth studies, cultural studies, sociology, education, and media and communications.