Young People in Digital Society

This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key featureof the everyday to analyse how ideas about youth and cyber-safety, digital inclusion andcitizenship are mobilized. Despite a growing interest in the benefits and opportunities foryoung people online, both 'young people' and 'the digital' continue to be constructed primarilyas sites of social and cultural anxiety requiring containment and control. Juxtaposing publicpolicy, popular educational and parental framings of young people's digital practices with theinsights from fieldwork conducted with young Australians aged 12-25, the book highlights thegenerative possibilities of attending to intergenerational tensions. In doing so, the authorsshow how a shift beyond the paradigm of control opens up towards a deeper understandingof the capacities that are generated in and through digital life for young and old alike.Young People in Digital Societywill be of interest to scholars and students in youth studies,cultural studies, sociology, education, and media and communications.