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[ecrea] CFP - Rethinking Youth Cultures In The Age Of Global Media, final conference

Thu Jan 20 10:53:03 GMT 2011



Announcement and Call For Papers Rethinking Youth Cultures In The Age Of Global Media Conference: Friday 17th June 2011, Institute Of Education, London Young people now have significantly greater access to globalised media and to technologies that can form and sustain transnational connections; many have also experienced global migration, and live in communities in which a wide range of global cultures mix and cross-fertilise. Media companies for their part are constructing and targeting global markets in which definitions of â??ageâ?? are stretched and/or inconsistent, whilst in general the role of media and consumption in contemporary culture has undergone significant shifts. Such developments have posed a challenge to some of the theoretical and methodological assumptions of earlier research on youth cultures. This conference, the final event in an ESRC-funded seminar series exploring these issues, will consider current and future directions for youth cultures research in the context of media globalisation. Keynote speakers include: Ritty Lukose (New York University, author of â??Liberalisationâ??s Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing Indiaâ??) on â??The Space-Time of Youth: Globalization and Generationâ?? and Mary Celeste Kearney (University of Texas, author of â??Girls Make Mediaâ??) on â??Rethinking Our Frames: Contexualizing Girls' Media Productionâ??. In addition, the day will feature parallel panel presentations by some of those involved in the seminar series and conclude with a roundtable reflecting on the themes of the conference and the series, with Anoop Nayak, Christine Griffin, Hilary Pilkington, Rupa Huq and others. We have a limited number of slots for additional papers and panels on relevant topics such as: youth and new media; theories of youth culture; youth as consumers; migration, transnationalism and diaspora; identities, differences and inequalities; youth as media producers and participants; and methods in youth research. If you would like to propose a paper or a themed panel, please send a title plus a 200-word abstract and author information to (FELS-youthculture /at/ open.ac.uk) before Friday 11th March 2011. We are keeping the cost of attendance at the conference low at just £20 (to cover lunch, refreshments and a closing reception). To reserve a place and arrange payment, please email (FELS-youthculture /at/ open.ac.uk). The organisers David Buckingham, Institute of Education Mary Jane Kehily and Sara Bragg, Open University

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