Hi Kevin, Some of my research (citations below) has addressed the ways in which young people appropriate/transform symbols and artifacts from popular culture into their own online productions (especially personal home pages). These articles may be relevant to the work you are doing. You might also look into work by Daniel Chandler (UK) and David Buckingham (UK). I'd love to learn more about your research on online youth creations as you proceed with your project. Best, Susannah Stern, S. (2004). Expressions of identity online: Prominent features and gender differences in adolescents WWW home pages. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 48(2). Stern, S. (2002). Virtually speaking: Girls self-disclosure on the WWW. Womens Studies in Communication, 25(2), 223-253. Stern, S. (2002). Sexual selves on the World Wide Web: Adolescent girls homepages as sites for sexual self-expression. In J. Brown, J. Steele, & K. Walsh-Childers (Eds.) Sexual Teens/Sexual Media: Investigating Medias Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (pp. 265-286). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. Stern, S. (1999). Adolescent girls' expression on WWW home pages: A qualitative analysis. Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 5(4), 22-41. Susannah Stern, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-7814 susannahstern@sandiego.edu | On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:01:58 -0500 | Kevin Leander <kevin.leander@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: | 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 | -- | Kevin Leander, Ph.D. | Vanderbilt University | http://www.vanderbilt.edu/litspace | _______________________________________________ | The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list | is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org | Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org | | Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org/airjoin.html