Youth, MySpace, and the Interstitial Spaces of Becoming and Belonging

作者: Mary Bryson , Lori Macintosh

DOI: 10.1300/J524V05N01_11

关键词: CyberspaceThe InternetMedia studiesPsychologyQueer theorySexual identityComputer-mediated communicationReading (process)QueerSocial psychologyHomosexuality

摘要: Abstract This essay provides a queer reading of MySpace (http://www.MySpace.com). The analysis engages how this hugely popular youth site, as exemplar online peer-to-peer networking, might provide educators and researchers with an ideal location for asking good questions about relationalities within hyper-mediated spaces. Social networking sites are changing the way people socialize, interpellated, made visible. Significantly, these altering structures recognizability. authors asseverate that significance social to youth, then, is not helpfully construed threat, or trendy cultural accessory, but constitutive everyday interstitial locations engagement signification which we need pay close careful attention.

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