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@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:17:56 -0800 From: "Tina Matuchniak @UCI" <tmatuchn@uci.edu> Subject: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media To: "AIR Listserve" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <D68ECA477F944ACF8713C3B1968C9629@tinalaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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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