[Air-l] popular culture and Internet practices

[Kevin Leander]

Hello,

I've been browsing this list for some time but haven't posted. I 
admire the work of a number of people on the list and am happy to see 
it running. I've been thinking lately about the relations between 
popular culture and internet practices. In particular, I'm interested 
in how youth draw on widely circulating (more global) texts while 
simultaneously being involved in producing these texts in, sometimes, 
surprisingly new ways. This interest especially came up with one 
youth I've been researching who is involved in building a new online 
game with others from different countries. I keep thinking about the 
different popular cultural texts he is drawing on, while he is also 
an active producer of culture. Anyway, I'm wondering if others on 
this list could point me in the direction of work that considers 
forms of activity of consuming and (re)producing popular culture with 
digital practices. My apologies if this is old ground on the list.

Kevin
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Kevin Leander, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/litspace