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When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these kinds of questions, <b>Youth and Media</b> explains why young people are central to understanding critical issues in media studies and media education.
Understanding Media Users: Girls, Mobile Phones and Identity
Understanding Media Users: Girls, Mobile Phones and Identity
Although the last chapter was about ‘big’ identities – national ones intended to affect widespread control – it also explored the importance of how young people encounter and use these identities personally – as things they feel and use. The way that young people experience and even author identity through media use is another enduring theme in media research. It is especially useful in analysing the significance of mobile media. Researchers have always argued that one of the main ‘effects’ of media technologies is that they are devices societies use to negotiate the relationship between public and private. The central idea here is that the use of media ...
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