[ecrea] Book out: Digital Passages. Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections (pb print & open access)

I’m happy to announce the print paperback and free open-access 
publication of my book Digital Passages. Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, 
Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections.

The book has just been released by Amsterdam University Press as part of 
their Media Matters series, you can download the open access pdf here: 
http://oapen.org/search?identifier=559550
If you have any questions, comments or feedback, do get in touch!
All the very best,
Koen Leurs
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Media and Communications, LSE
Incoming assistant professor Gender and Postcolonial Theory, Dept of 
Media and Culture, Utrecht University
www.koenleurs.net

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Digital Passages. Migrant Youth 2.0.
Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their 
social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than 
face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in 
which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's 
the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a 
ground-breaking analysis of the ways that youth culture online interacts 
with issues of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Drawing on surveys, 
in-depth interviews, and ethnography, Koen Leurs builds an 
interdisciplinary portrait of online youth culture and the spaces it 
opens up for migrant youth to negotiate power relations and to promote 
intercultural understanding.

********* Details *********
Amsterdam University Press, Media Matters Series
Release date: 15 June 2015
Pages: 324
Figures: 20
Tables: 8
Paperback print: 39.95 €, see 
http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789089646408-digital-passages-migrant-youth-2-0.html 

Free open access download: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=559550

********* Endorsements *********
"Koen Leurs' work on Moroccan-Dutch youth in the Netherlands with a 
focus on their use of new media makes a very important contribution to 
research on race, ethnicity and diasporas. The work is informed by 
theories in postcolonial studies, critical geography, migration and 
transnationalism and gives us a clear look at the everyday use of new 
technology by these young people while revealing the power hierarchies 
that shape the production, use and circulation of media made by and for 
these young people. His methods allow us to see these young people as 
agents who make decisions in their media use and production. He also 
shows how anti-immigrant feelings manifested in offline community are 
reproduced in computer game culture online. Overall the extent, depth 
and scope of this project makes it a strong contribution to the study of 
youth cultures in global media contexts."
- Radhika Gajjala, Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green 
State University

"Nothing else has been published on these topics that can match the 
rigour and insight of Koen Leurs' innovative book. Neither cheerleader 
nor nay sayer, he blasts apart every over simple assumption about social 
media in the everyday life of these marginalised and misunderstood young 
Dutch people. Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0 will find a broad 
resonance beyond the Netherlands. It should be read by everybody 
interested in the power of network technologies that have altered 
solidarity, place and belonging and are now transforming the meaning of 
culture itself."
- Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature at King's 
College London

"This book analyzes data about the everyday digital lives of 
Moroccan-Dutch youth gathered by a gifted researcher over many years. A 
rich and complex picture emerges, one that adds substantially to the 
existing scholarship on xenophobia, youth and social media, and 
identity. Strikingly interdisciplinary, humane, and fascinating research 
from a nuanced feminist perspective."
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor at the 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

*********Table of contents*********
Introduction
Methodological Trajectory
Voices from the margins on Internet forums
Expanding socio-cultural parameters of action using instant messaging
Selfies and hypertextual selves on social networking sites
Affective geographies on YouTube
Conclusions

Bibliography
Appendix 1: meet the informants
Index

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