Youth Studies

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

Subterranean Sources of Juvenile Delinquency In China: Evidence From Birth Cohort Surveys

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

Governmentality and Youth Volunteering Policy

by Jon Dean

Presented at the Voluntary Action History Society 2010.

Young people are increasingly encouraged to volunteer, perhaps as a panacea to combat personal and social problems... more Young people are increasingly encouraged to volunteer, perhaps as a panacea to combat personal and social problems (Sheard, 1995). This paper will explore why volunteering policy has developed this instrumental tendency in recent history. It will analyse Michel Foucault’s theories of governmentality, and use these as a frame to consider the advances made in youth policy over the last half century, but with particular regard to volunteering policy in the last 15 years. Using governmentality as a tool of analysis, it will argue that volunteering policy has become a device to responsibilize younger generations; a method to improve the authority of the young over their own lives and their local areas, whilst moulding behaviour which brings about individual and collective wellbeing. It is also argued that this follows a natural progression of youth policies to tackle the ‘problem of youth’.

Occupy Movement and politics of educated hope

by Henry Giroux

The Civic Consequences of “Going Negative”: Attack Ads and Adolescents’ Knowledge, Consumption, and Participation

by Itay Gabay

This study explores whether negative political advertising has any impact on adolescents. Two data sets are merged for... more This study explores whether negative political advertising has any impact on adolescents. Two data sets are merged for this inquiry: (a) content-coded ad-buy data on the placement of campaign messages on a market-by-market and program-by-program basis and (b) national survey data of parents-child dyads collected immediately after the 2008 presidential election. Our analysis finds that the negativity of political advertising to which adolescents were exposed predicted human-interest candidate knowledge, but not policy-relevant candidate knowledge. In addition, the negativity of political advertising exposure suppressed political consumerism among adolescents, but had no effect on their levels of political participation. This study shows that political campaigns can affect adolescents’ knowledge and participation in unconventional and potentially deleterious ways.

CHURCH NEWS: NEW UNITY MOVEMENT STEPS PROPOSED

by Daniel Keeran MSW

by Daniel Keeran, MSW (distrbute freely without charge)

Against the unity prayer of Jesus in the gospel of John chapter 17, divisions within Christianity have been common... more Against the unity prayer of Jesus in the gospel of John chapter 17, divisions within Christianity have been common from the beginning. New steps for unity are outlined that provide grass-roots opportunities in local churches and communities.

Fundamental to the new unity movement are principles and a change in paradigm that give a fresh approach to the ancient problem of divisions among people who identify themselves as followers of Jesus.

“(De)construyendo la esfera pública. Juventud y la otra cultura política

by J. Igor Israel González Aguirre

Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, Vol. 10, núm. 1, CINDE, Colombia, 2012

Ser joven se constituye hoy en un ámbito de indecibilidad. Lo anterior coloca la construcción de los proyectos... more Ser joven se constituye hoy en un ámbito de indecibilidad. Lo anterior coloca la construcción de los proyectos identitarios directamente en el centro del campo político. El estudio de ello requiere considerar una serie de interrogantes, que son las que dan cuerpo a esta intervención: ¿cómo se tematiza la relación entre la juventud y la esfera pública en la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México? ¿Cuáles son las imágenes culturales que dotan de visibilidad a los jóvenes y a las jóvenes en dicha zona y cómo éstas funcionan cual mecanismos de control por parte del Estado? ¿Qué tácticas despliegan los sujetos jóvenes tapatíos frente a ello?

“(De)construyendo la esfera pública. Juventud y la otra cultura política

by J. Igor Israel González Aguirre

Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, Vol. 10, núm. 1, CINDE, Colombia, 2012

Ser joven se constituye hoy en un ámbito de indecibilidad. Lo anterior coloca la construcción de los proyectos... more Ser joven se constituye hoy en un ámbito de indecibilidad. Lo anterior coloca la construcción de los proyectos identitarios directamente en el centro del campo político. El estudio de ello requiere considerar una serie de interrogantes, que son las que dan cuerpo a esta intervención: ¿cómo se tematiza la relación entre la juventud y la esfera pública en la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México? ¿Cuáles son las imágenes culturales que dotan de visibilidad a los jóvenes y a las jóvenes en dicha zona y cómo éstas funcionan cual mecanismos de control por parte del Estado? ¿Qué tácticas despliegan los sujetos jóvenes tapatíos frente a ello?

Juventud: (otros modos de) mirar el vacío

by J. Igor Israel González Aguirre

Leaving MySpace, joining Facebook: ‘Growing up’ on social network sites

by Brady Robards

Robards, B. (2012) “Leaving MySpace, joining Facebook: Growing up on social network sites in Australia”, Continuum, 26(3): 385-398.

In the past decade, the reach of social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook has extended to a point where for... more In the past decade, the reach of social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook has extended to a point where for many young people, participation is now mandatory for inclusion amongst peer groups. For some of these young people, large parts of their social lives have been played out on these sites. The shift from one site (MySpace) to another (Facebook) can also be understood as marking an important change in the way young people manage their ‘digital trace’. This shift corresponds with narratives in which participants signal their movement towards forms of online sociality that are concerned with their relationships with others on Facebook rather than the often introspective and performative forms of sociality emphasised on MySpace. This article examines elements of each site that participants point towards as contributing to their own shift – both in terms of their functionality and the broader social milieu in which the sites operate. More broadly, this article also considers the ‘trace’ that is generated by participation on these sites (creating profiles, uploading images, commenting on pages and so on) as representing a key mechanism by which young people’s transition narratives can be made accessible and visible amongst their network. This article draws on research from two linked small-scale qualitative studies conducted on the Gold Coast in Australia, the first with a group of ten young people in 2007 and the second with thirty young people in 2009/2010.

Development of tobacco prevention educational materials for teachers and peer leaders oriented on youth problems and values

by Tatiana Andreeva

Breaking expectations: Imagined affinities in mediated youth cultures

by Mary Fogarty

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies

Volume 26, Issue 3, 2012
Special Issue: Mediated Youth Cultures
Editors: Andy Bennett & Brady Robards

This article examines the mediated encounters experienced by participants in hip hop and funk dance styles especially... more This article examines the mediated encounters experienced by participants in hip hop and funk dance styles especially breaking or b-boying/b-girling. It introduces the concept of imagined affinities to describe the spectrum of these encounters, which are enacted through mediated texts, or by travels through new places. Using interviews with dancers as a guide, I argue that artefacts made, distributed and circulated by dancers help to produce perceptions of commonalities between them. The nature of the process of rapid mediatisation, which has taken place during the past few decades, and its subsequent impact on breaking or b-boying/b-girling, are considered here through a concerted effort to historicize shifts in practice and experience. I examine the historical moment when homemade videotapes began to proliferate in the cultural practices of breaking, providing a source for the values and codes of hip hop culture. At that time, dancers on tour, who created the videos, celebrated the local contexts of other dancers from around the world while simultaneously showing a determination to appreciate breaking through its own practices and formats, even as these practices were becoming rapidly transformed and expanded through international networks.

Les jeunes adultes québécois, l'épargne et l'investissement: Pratiques, connaissances et attitudes

by Jacinthe Cloutier

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.