Hi folks, I'm delighted to announce a new book, that may be of interest to you - *Mediated Youth Cultures: The internet, belonging, and new cultural configurations* - just published by Palgrave. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137287014 It's an edited collection of thirteen essays from around the world covering topics such as growing up stories on Facebook, the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, mediated drinking cultures, Israeli design blogs, the circulation of Korean pop music, and more. In some ways, this book follows on from a special issue of the journal *Continuum* published in 2012 on the same topic ( http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/26/3). TOC for the book is below. Cheers, Brady (co-editor, with Andy Bennett) PART I: IDENTITIES 1. Youth Identities in a Digital Age: The Anchoring Role of Friends in Young People's Approaches to Online Identity Expression; Katie Davis 2. Mediating Experiences of 'Growing Up' on Facebook's Timeline: Privacy, Ephemerality and the Reflexive Project of Self; Brady Robards 3. Young People and Mediated Private Space; Siân Lincoln 4. Ending Up Online: Interrogating Mediated Youth Drinking Cultures; Ian Goodwin, Antonia Lyons, Christine Griffin and Tim McCreanor PART II: ENGAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY 5. Rethinking 'Virtual' Youth: Young People and Life Writing; Kate Douglas and Anna Poletti 6. 'The Designs Industry': Girls Play with Production and Power on Israeli Blogs; Carmel Vaisman 7. Youth, Social Media and Transnational Cultural Distribution: The Case of Online K-Pop Circulation; Sun Jung 8. Young People's Musical Engagement, and Technologies of Taste; Melissa Avdeeff 9. Understanding Everyday Uses of Music Technologies in the Digital Age; Raphaël Nowak PART III: BODIES, SPACE AND PLACE 10. Women, Sport and New Media Technologies: Derby Grrrls Online; Adele Pavlidis and Simone Fullagar 11. Getting Bodied with Beyoncé on YouTube; Ann Werner 12. Activating Young People in the Production of Virtual Worlds; Liam Berriman 13. Flash Mobs and Zombie Shuffles: Play in the Augmented City; Susan Bird -- Dr Brady Robards School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania t: @bradyjay <https://twitter.com/bradyjay> w: bradyrobards.com <http://www.bradyrobards.com/>