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

[pmgazz]

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
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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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