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Author Lane, Jeffrey, 1979- author.

Title The digital street / Jeffrey Lane
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction to the digital street -- Girls and boys -- Code switching -- Pastor -- Going to jail because of the internet -- Conclusion -- Appendix in digital urban ethnography -- References -- Index
Summary "The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents. It is simply no longer possible to understand coming of age in the inner city without an appreciation of both the face-to-face and online relations that structure neighborhood life. The Digital Street is the first in-depth exploration of the ways digital social media is changing life in poor, minority communities. Based on five years of ethnographic observations, dozens of interviews, and analyses of social media content, Jeffrey Lane illustrates a new street world where social media transforms how young people experience neighborhood violence and poverty. Lane examines the online migration of the code of the street and its consequences, from encounters between boys and girls, to the relationship between the street and parents, schools, outreach workers, and the police. He reveals not only the risks youths face through surveillance or worsening violence, but also the opportunities digital social media use provides for mitigating danger. Granting access to this new world, Jeffrey Lane shows how age-old problems of living through poverty, especially gangs and violence, are experienced differently for the first generation of teenagers to come of age on the digital street."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2018)
Subject Online social networks -- New York (State) -- New York
Social media -- New York (State) -- New York
Digital communications -- New York (State) -- New York
African American teenagers -- New York (State) -- New York
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
African American teenagers
Digital communications
Online social networks
Social conditions
Social media
SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
Form Electronic book
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