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This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of ´mediated youth cultures´, covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.

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Introduction: Youth, Cultural Practice and Media Technologies; Andy Bennett and Brady Robards PART I: ONLINE AND OFFLINE IDENTITIES 1. Youth Identities in a Digital Age: The Anchoring Role of Friends in Young People´s Approaches to Online Identity Expression; Katie Davis 2. Mediating Experiences of ´Growing Up´ on Facebook´s Timeline: Privacy, Ephemerality and the Reflexive Project of Self; Brady Robards 3. Young People and Mediated Private Space; Sian Lincoln 4. Ending Up Online: Interrogating Mediated Youth Drinking Cultures; Ian Goodwin, Antonia Lyons, Christine Griffin and Tim McCreanor PART II: ENGAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY 5. Rethinking ´Virtual´ Youth: Young People and Life Writing; Kate Douglas and Anna Poletti 6. ´The Designs Industry´: Girls Play with Production and Power on Israeli Blogs; Carmel Vaisman 7. Youth, Social Media and Transnational Cultural Distribution: The Case of Online K-Pop Circulation; Sun Jung 8. Young People´s Musical Engagement, and Technologies of Taste; Melissa Avdeeff 9. Understanding Everyday Uses of Music Technologies in the Digital Age; Raphael Nowak PART III: BODIES, SPACE AND PLACE 10. Women, Sport and New Media Technologies: Derby Grrrls Online; Adele Pavlidis and Simone Fullagar 11. Getting Bodied with Beyonce on YouTube; Ann Werner 12. Activating´ Young People in the Production of Virtual Worlds; Liam Berriman 13. Flash Mobs and Zombie Shuffles: Play in the Augmented City; Susan Bird Glossary of Terms

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´Bringing together an impressive range of scholars and original research from around the world, Mediated Youth Cultures offers an invaluable resource for those studying how young people are integrating digital communications into their cultural lives, from the role of the internet in the development and playing out of young identities, to the significance of online communication as a tool for different forms of cultural consumption, creativity and resistance. Bennett and Robards have assembled a diverse and complementary set of contributions that will surely be essential reading for students of youth and youth cultures, and will help set future research agendas in this crucial and fast-changing area.´ - Paul Hodkinson, Reader in Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

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Melissa Avdeeff, independent researcher, Canada Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia Liam Berriman, University of Sussex, UK Susan Bird, Victoria University, Australia Katie Davis, University of Washington Information School, USA Kate Douglas, Flinders University, Australia Simone Fullagar, University of Bath, UK Ian Goodwin, Massey University, New Zealand Christine Griffin, University of Bath, UK Sun Jung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Siân Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Antonia Lyons, Massey University, New Zealand Tim McCreanor, Massey University, New Zealand Rapha‰l Nowak, Griffith University, Australia Adele Pavlidis, Griffith University, Australia Brady Robards, University of Tasmania, Australia Carmel L. Vaisman, Tel Aviv University, Israel Anna Poletti, Monash University, Australia Ann Werner, Södertörn University, Sweden

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