[ecrea] 'Mediated Youth Cultures' - Special issue of Continuum (26.3) now online

Very proud to announce that a new special issue of /Continuum /is now 
online. This issue brings together 13 articles that make visible an 
international and cross-disciplinary research agenda concerned with 
mediated youth cultures:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/26/3

*Contents*:

  1. "‘Connect and create’: Young people, YouTube and Graffiti
     communities" by Ben Light, Marie Griffiths & Siân Lincoln
  2. "The pedagogy of regret: Facebook, binge drinking and young women"
     by Rebecca Brown and Melissa Gregg
  3. "‘Individuality is everything’: ‘autonomous’ femininity in MySpace
     mottos and self-descriptions" by Amy Shields Dobson
  4. "Leaving MySpace, joining Facebook: ‘Growing up’ on social network
     sites" by Brady Robards
  5. "Female Pressure: A translocal feminist youth-oriented cultural
     network" by Rosa Reitsamer
  6. "From Punks to Post-Hipsters: Exploring Subcultural Models Of A
     Youth Net-Radio Hierarchy" by Andrea Baker
  7. "To Write Love through the indie imaginary: The narrative argument
     of a mediated movement" by Ryan M. Milner
  8. "The Outlaws of Psytrance in the Time of the Vibe-Tribes"
     by Graham St John
  9. "Breaking expectations: Imagined affinities in mediated youth
     cultures" by Mary Fogarty
 10. "Sexting, Consent and Young People’s Ethics: Beyond Megan’s Story"
     by Kath Albury and Kate Crawford
 11. "The landscape of keitai shôsetsu: Mobile phones as a literary
     medium among Japanese youth" by Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim
 12. "A Generational Thing? The Internet and New Forms of Social
     Intercourse" by Fredrik Miegel and Tobias Olsson
 13. "Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young
     people from refugee backgrounds" by Raelene Wilding

My co-editor, Andy Bennett and I would like to thank all of the above 
contributors for their work. We would also like to thank the many 
reviewers who provided valuable, constructive feedback on earlier 
versions of these articles. We hope you enjoy!

Cheers,
Brady

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Brady Robards
Assoc. Lecturer (Sociology)
Griffith University

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