1st Edition

Kids on YouTube Technical Identities and Digital Literacies

By Patricia G Lange Copyright 2014
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 Introduction: Ways With Video, Chapter 2 Video-Mediated Friendships: Specialization and Relational Expertise, Chapter 3 Girls 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 Ethnographic Approach, References, Index, About the Author

Biography

Patricia G Lange