Mediated Youth Reader

Sharon R. Mazzarella (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Professor of Communication Studies at James Madison University. She is editor of five anthologies, and her research has been published in a range of journals. Her current research examines the moral panic behind journalistic constructions of girls and girlhoods.

• Contents: Sharon R. Mazzarella: I Remember the Risotto – Susan Driver: Queering Girl Studies: Dialogical Languages and Performative Desires. From Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media (2007) – Ruth Nicole Brown: Theorizing Narrative Discrepancies of Black Girlhood From Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy (2009) – Meghan Chandler/Diana Anselmo-Sequeira: The «Dollification» of Riot Grrrls: Self-Fashioning Alternative Identities From Doll Studies: The Many Meanings of Girls’ Toys and Play. Miriam Forman-Brunell/Jennifer Dawn Whitney, Eds. (2015) – Dawn H. Currie/Deirdre M. Kelly/Shauna Pomerantz: Breaking the Rules: Skater Girls From «Girl Power»: Girls Reinventing Girlhood (2009) – Elham Golpush-Nezhad: Queering Tehran: Discovering Gay Rap in Iran From Lost Histories of Youth Culture. Christine Feldman-Barrett, Ed. (2015) – Divya C. McMillin: Television and Transnational Relevance From Mediated Identities: Youth, Agency & Globalization (2009) – Christine Feldman-Barrett: Japan’s «Cult of Mod» From «We Are the Mods»: A Transnational History of a Subculture (2009) – Nicolas Carah: «Enjoy Responsibly!»: Young People as Brand Co-creators From Pop Brands: Branding, Popular Music, and Young People (2010) – Michelle S. Bae-Dimitriadis: Go Cyworld! Korean Diasporic Girls Producing New Korean Femininity From Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ed. (2010) – Shayla Thiel Stern: «How Many Peeps R on 4 U?»: IM As a Space for Identity Articulation From Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging (2007) – Stacey J. T. Hust: The Shrines to What They Love: Exploring Boys’ Uses and Gratifications of Media in their Personal Spaces From Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture. Annette Wannamaker, Ed. (2011) – Kathleen Sweeney: The Girl Gaze: Indies, Hollywood, and the Celluloid Ceiling From Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age (2008) – Natalie Wilson: Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves: Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight Series From Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise. Melissa A. Click/Jennifer Stevens Aubrey/Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Eds. (2010) – Angharad N. Valdivia: This Tween Bridge over My Latina Girl Back: The U.S. Mainstream Negotiates Ethnicity Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture (2011, Mary Celeste Kearney, Ed.) (2011) – Spring-Serenity Duvall/Leigh Moscowitz: When Boys Go Missing Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media (2016) – Mediated Youth Reader: Contributor Biographies.

«The rich diversity of this volume admirably captures the lived diversity of young people’s mediated lives, challenging any homogenizing accounts of ‘youth’ and revealing the complex interplay between identities, agency, media, and politics. It will surely prove vital for researchers and illuminating for students.» (Sonia Livingstone, Global Kids Online, London School of Economics)«The chapters in the Mediated Youth Reader challenge our understandings of identity formation, global variations in how youth of different cultures live and interact with popular culture, and, especially, girls’ diverse experiences with technology. These selections show the range of powerful ideas and interesting methodologies for studying youth cultures around the world…it is a fascinating volume.»(Ellen Wartella, Al-Thani Professor of Communication and Director, Center on Media and Human Development, Northwestern University)