Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media

Introduction 1. 'What Time is Now?' Researching Youth and Culture Beyond the 'Birmingham School'; Christine Griffin 2. Youth and Globalization: Changing Trajectories of Culture and Politics; Ritty A. Lukose 3. Historicize This! Contextualism in Youth Media Studies; Mary Celeste Kearney 4. 'My Whole Life is Here': Tracing Journeys through 'Skinhead'; Hilary Pilkington 5. From Local Gangs to Global Tribes: The Latin Kings and Queens Nation in Catalonia; Carles Feixa and Oriol Romani 6. Dissenting Citizenship: South Asian Muslim Youth in the U.S. after 9/11; Sunaina Maira 7. Looking East: Young Koreans Consuming Japanese Media in the Intra-Asian Youthscape; Kyong Yoon 8. Learning to Act Your Age: 'Age Imaginaries' and Media Consumption in an English Secondary School; Patrick Alexander 9. Charver Kids and Pram-face Girls: Working Class Youth, Representation and Embodied Performance; Mary Jane Kehily and Anoop Nayak 10. Youth Media and its Global Digital Afterlife; Elisabeth Soep 11. Claiming Content and Constructing Users: User-Generated Content and BBC Blast; Helen Thornham and Angela McFarlane 12. Selling Youth: the Paradoxical Empowerment of the Young Consumer; David Buckingham 13. Youth Citizenship Beyond Consensus: Examining the Role of Satire and Humour for Critical Engagements in Citizenship Education; Kathrin Horschelmann and Elisabeth El Refaie 14. 'i matter. and so does she': Girl Power, (Post)Feminism and the Girl Effect; Ofra Koffman and Rosalind Gill 15. Politics, Identity, Representation and UK Asian Suburban Youth: Voices from the Margins; Rupa Huq Conclusion