Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0: Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections (MediaMatters) - Softcover

Leurs, Koen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 908964640X ISBN 13: 9789089646408

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a ground-breaking analysis of the ways that youth culture online interacts with issues of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnography, Koen Leurs builds an interdisciplinary portrait of online youth culture and the spaces it opens up for migrant youth to negotiate power relations and to promote intercultural understanding.

About this title

About the Author:

Koen Leurs is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science and he is affiliated with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University.

Review:

“A compelling and theoretically rigorous examination of diasporas online.” (Pramod Nayar, author of An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures)

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 908964640X
• ISBN 13: 9789089646408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324