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Title Digital diversions : youth culture in the age of multimedia / edited by Julian Sefton-Green
Published London ; Pennsylvania : UCL Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 179 pages) : illustrations
Series Media, education, culture
Media, education, culture
Contents Introduction : Being young in the Digital Age / Julian Sefton-Green -- Fun and games are serious business / Helen Nixon -- Blue group boys play Incredible machine, girls play hopscotch : social discourse and gendered play at the computer / Karen Orr Vered -- Digital visions : children's 'creative' uses of multimedia technologies / Julian Sefton-Green and David Buckingham -- Making connections : young people and the Internet / Chris Abbott -- An American otaku (or, a boy's virtual life on the Net) / Joseph Tobin -- Digital culture-the view from the dance floor / Helen Cunningham -- Hackers : masters of modernity and modern technology / Jörgen Nissen
Summary This work explores the diverse ways in which young people are active social agents in the production of youth culture in the digital age. The contributors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies and feminism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Multimedia systems -- Social aspects
Video games -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects.
Computers and children.
Subculture.
COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects -- General.
Computer games -- Social aspects
Computers and children
Internet -- Social aspects
Multimedia systems -- Social aspects
Subculture
Internet.
Jongeren.
Multimedia.
Subcultuur.
Form Electronic book
Author Sefton-Green, Julian.
ISBN 0203291743
9780203291740
0203214072
9780203214077