Digital Youth Subcultures

<p>This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS).</p><p>The book addresses four objectives:</p><p>1. To understand how young peoples’ subcultures arise online and they are constructed and experienced in DSS</p><p>2. To understand how and why DSS matter to young people</p><p>3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these online spaces and</p><p>4. To understand how identity locations such as social class gender and ethnicity and/or their intersections shape young peoples’ engagement and behaviour(s) in DSS.</p><p>In addressing these objectives with a focus on European contributions the text provides a holistic understanding of the purpose of digital social spaces in shaping young peoples’ identities and self-perceptions. It will be of interest to postgraduate students secondary school teachers lecturers and scholars in education sociology youth studies and technology.</p>