Youth Culture

Counterfeiting What? Aesthetics of Brandedness and BRAND in Tamil Nadu, India

by Constantine Nakassis

(2012) Anthropological Quarterly 85(3):701-722, Special Collections - Pirates and Piracy, Broadly Conceived.

Pan-Islamic Networks of the Apocalypse: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth on Facebook

by David Drissel

Hip-Hop Hybridity for a Glocalized World: African and Muslim Diasporic Discourses in French Rap Music

by David Drissel

Hybridizing Hip-hop in Diaspora: Young British South Asian Men Negotiating Black-inflected Identities

by David Drissel

Urban Schism, Social Strains: Exploring the Collective Identities of Youth in Contemporary Belfast

by David Drissel

Online Jihadism for the Hip-Hop Generation: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth In Cyberspace

by David Drissel

Anarchist Punks Resisting Gentrification: Countercultural Contestations of Space in the New Berlin

by David Drissel

Reinventing Rebellion: Alternative Youth Subcultures In Post-Tiananmen China

by David Drissel

Bauer Béla—Déri András: Hálózathoz kötődve – a fiatalok online hálói

by András Déri

A link a teljes Arctalan (?) Nemzedék tanulmánykötet letöltéséhez vezet.

Title in English: Connected to the net: Online youth networks
Published in:: Arctalan (?) nemzedék. Ed. by: Bauer Béla & Szabó Andrea, NCSSZI, Budapest, 2011., p. 283-292.

English abstract (text only in Hungarian):

This study investigates the consequences of growing digital... more English abstract (text only in Hungarian):

This study investigates the consequences of growing digital literacy and online presence of young people with an overview of the literature on these questions and an outline of the main directions of future research. If we interpret the new spaces of virtual social action provided by new channels of communication as social spaces, we can understand the nature of the participants’ networks – especially the network’s normative characteristics and growth, as well as the diffusion within the network. We can also understand and describe the specific capitals of network members.

Eine semantische Einführung in die Jugendsprachen

by Utku Tanrıvere

Munteanu, D. G. (2009). From Individualised Content to Commodified Form: A Critical Appraisal of Contemporary Youth Culture.

by Dinu Munteanu

Research presented at the 'Stanford Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium', Stanford University, U.S.A., June 26-28, 2009.

While We're Still Young and Beautiful

by Jeff Klooger

Growing up nationalist: An emerging risk and a lesson to be learned

by Jelena Petrovic

Awarded essay. St.Gallen Wings of Excellence Award (1st prize)

Author examines the risk of youth nationalist movements in post-conflict states of the Western Balkans analyzing... more Author examines the risk of youth nationalist movements in post-conflict states of the Western Balkans analyzing factors influencing youth nationalists upbringing and proposing 4 principles on which adequate response should be built (SEEC - System, Education, Equality and Cooperation/Coordination)

Developing Racial Identity on Social Networking Sites and Implications in the Offline World

by Rachel Lesniak

Popular culture as carnaval

by Stephen Linstead

S. Linstead (2010) “Popular Culture as Carnaval: The Clash, Play and Transgression in the Aesthetic Economy 1976-85” in Townley, B. and Beech, N. eds. Organizing Creativity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781107403734 pp 60-80.

In this chapter I explore the question of the appropriateness of the metaphor of carnival when applied to rock music... more In this chapter I explore the question of the appropriateness of the metaphor of carnival when applied to rock music generally, but in particular to the world of The Clash, with its strong visual identity and cartoonish sensibilities displaying eccentricity, mésalliances, ambiguity, profanation, transgression, ambivalent laughter and creative degradation – all classic features of carnival, identifi ed by Mikhail Bahktin . I highlight some of the post-Bakhtinian problems of dealing with a literary representation (carnival) of a lived social relation (which I term carnaval ), and using that representation as a metaphor for a different lived social relation, without direct close engagement with the relevant (transgressive) features of that social relation itself. Whilst the work of The Clash provides useful material for the former analysis, an examination of their social milieu and interpersonal relations provides insight into processes of transgression and what Peter Stallybrass and Allon White (1986 ) call ‘the dialectics of social classifi cation’ . That these social relations have a dark side that is not resisted without cost – a point that is often lost in the application of the carnival metaphor – is underscored by the
conflictual and ultimately destructive dynamics of the band, their
management and organization, despite producing perhaps the most musically complex, professionally influential, politically energized, commercially successful and artistically enduring body of work by any of the punk bands.

Consumer Workers as Immaterial Labor in the Converging Media Markets: Three Value Creation Practices

by Johanna Moisander

co authored with Saara Könkkölä and Pikka-Maaria Laine; forthcoming in International Journal of Consumer Studies

This paper takes a practice-based approach to consumer studies and focuses on the strategic and productive roles that... more This paper takes a practice-based approach to consumer studies and focuses on the strategic and productive roles that consumers play as immaterial labor or consumer workers in the converging media markets. Based on a case study of a print media organization and its customers, the aim is to discuss the collaborative practices through which value is created in the market. By means of a textual analysis of online and interview data, three value-creation practices are abstracted and illustrated: constructing a sense of belonging and collective identity, mutual helping and peer support, and building pride and self-respect. Overall, the paper suggests that in global media environments, consumer-customers are playing increasingly significant strategic roles in the practices and processes through which value is co-created in the market. It is therefore concluded that the idea of consumers, and media audiences in particular, as recipients of communication and targets of marketing activities needs to be problematized and the dynamic strategic roles that consumers currently play in the market need to be acknowledged and actively incorporated into the business praxis of media corporations.

Languaging in Ultima Thule: Multilingualism in the Life of a Sami boy

by Sirpa Leppänen

Heteroglossia in web writing

by Sirpa Leppänen

Playing with and Policing Language Use and Textuality in Fan Fiction

by Sirpa Leppänen

In Internet Fictions.2009. Hotz-Davis, Ingrid, Anton Kirchhofer and Sirpa Leppänen. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars’ Press

Language policy in the making: an analysis of bilingual gaming activities

by Sirpa Leppänen