Mediated Identities: Youth, Agency, & Globalization

by Divya C. Mcmillin

Mediated Identities is an empirical examination of how youth identity is negotiated in urban and rural spaces where cultural, economic, and political forces compete for the allegiance of the young consumer and worker. Rich with fieldwork on teens and television in India, Germany, South Africa, and the United States, the book provides a new direction for the critical discussion of youth agency. It questions young people as autonomous consumers and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433100975
• ISBN13: 9781433100970
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 211 Pages