[Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media

[pmgazz]

Good grief, I'm sorry -- I thought I was forwarding this to a friend, 
not the list :(

pmgazz wrote:
> Woohoo, queer visibility in rural America (scroll down) -- digital 
> media & politics stuff might be of interest anyway
>
> Mary L. Gray wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Tina: I agree with sentiments of the other posts: 1) there's not much 
>> out there and 2) as Caitlin Fisher noted, other than the Pew study, 
>> one of the better compilations of work out there is the "Digital 
>> Youth Research Project" funded by the MacArthur Foundation...here's 
>> the link: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report
>>
>> I'd also recommend looking at Sonia Livingstone's work in the the UK 
>> as a counterpoint (to get a sense of the differences between work in 
>> the U.S. and elsewhere). David Buckingham's collection "Youth, 
>> Identity, and Digital Media" (MIT Press, 2007) is another broader 
>> take on the questions you might find yourself asking.
>>
>> Crispin Thurlow is editing a special collection of the Journal of 
>> Computer-Mediated Communication addressing youth's differential uses 
>> of new media. You might email him to ask if the volume's publication 
>> date has been scheduled. JCMC came out with a really interesting 
>> special issue on SNS (not youth-specific) that's also a great 
>> collection to examine for more background (here's the intro article): 
>> boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: 
>> Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated 
>> Communication, 13(1), article 11. 
>> http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
>>
>> And a bit of shameless self-promotion (drums rolls a'rolling): my 
>> book "Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural 
>> America" (NYU Press, 2009) will be out this August. It's a veritable 
>> trifecta of differential use: how lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and 
>> questioning young people use new media to craft a sense of visibility 
>> in rural, working poor communities in the U.S. Specifically, it looks 
>> at how the politics of gay visibility (expectations to be out and the 
>> naturalization of the coming out process) interplay with class, race, 
>> sexuality, gender, and space to shape young people's new media use. I 
>> use ethnography to examine how young people engage new media to 
>> collectively rework the boundaries of visibility and queer 
>> authenticity vis-a-vis their families, schools, communities, and 
>> online networks (hopefully troubling what we take for granted about 
>> the boundaries between online and offline experiences and where we 
>> expect to find queer identity work along the way).
>>
>> You've picked a great area of research, Tina. I hope you add to the 
>> growing body of work particularly concerned with the lives of youth 
>> under 18. Th research on this demographic is particularly thin and in 
>> need of a critical eye.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Mary
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:
>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:17:56 -0800
>>> From: "Tina Matuchniak @UCI" <tmatuchn at uci.edu>
>>> Subject: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media
>>> To: "AIR Listserve" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
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>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, 
>>> currently working on a project about use of new media (SNS, games, 
>>> video production, etc.) amongst youth.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if someone could point me to any studies on American 
>>> youth's differential use (by gender, race, SES etc.) of new media.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time,
>>>
>>> Tina Matuchniak
>>> Graduate Student
>>> Department of Education
>>> University of California, Irvine
>>>
>>>
>>
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