youth culture, youth practices
Notes from the bookĀ āParticipatory Culture in a Networked Eraā by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito and danah boyd
ā Working at the intersection of youth practices, participatory culture, and digital and networked technology
ā A willingness to reveal the limitations of our knowledge and our collective struggles to work out what we are privileged enough to witness. Research is a process, and all too often we tend to emphasise the final output.
ā By positioning youth asĀ āotherā, adults fail to recognise or appreciate the ways in which youth use technology to connect with others, learn and participate in public life. Seeing technology through trend lines, adults fail to see the diversity of youth practices that emerge.
ā The need to unpack what people think about youth and technology versus what we are able to see through research. People think they know something about youth because they were once young or because they are parents to a young person.
ā Our efforts to communicate what we see are further complicated by others desires to claim expertise based on their vantage point
ā (danah) Early internet culture of self-identified geeks, freaks and queers. Returning to examine teen practices in early twenties ā it becomes apparent that the geekey internet that I knew and loved was not the same environment that majority of the youth experienced. I made an analytic decision to study mainstream American Teen practices, in part they were foreign. My hobbies and interests have long dominated my attention to friends ā terrible at figuring out how to belong let alone to be cool. Trying to make sense of everyday teen practices would not be an Ā act of reliving or reimagining my own teenage years.
ā (mimi) Without idealising youth, itās important to shine a light on how adults often unreasonably curtail young peopleās freedom and voice.
ā (henry) When we are discussing the early subcultural uses of digital media, we are focusing largely on the kinds of culture this first generation of digital youth helped to create for themselves. The young people who most urgently needed alternative channels of social connection and personal expression were those who were least well served by current institutional practices.
