{"product_id":"digital-flaneurs-9781807580155","title":"Digital Flâneurs","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\t\u003cstrong\u003eYouth and digital media practices:\u003c\/strong\u003e The question of how (digital) media affect young people in particular is part of a longstanding and widespread discourse. Popular media accounts usually take an alarmist stance, while rarely involving young people and exploring their perspectives and agency beyond quantitative surveys. This book is the result of an interdisciplinary, innovative research project that draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and participatory workshops to provide a unique and insightful perspective on these issues. It pays attention to lived social realities while exploring digital design premises with cognitive and computer scientists to provide a context-rich and nuanced understanding of the ways young people engage with digital technologies. It can thus be of interest to the wider public, as well as to the academics working in anthropology, media studies and related fields.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\t\u003cstrong\u003eDigital literacy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Recent efforts in the European Union to introduce multidimensional digital literacy curricula in schools call for understanding digital literacy in variety of social and cultural contexts. This book contributes by exploring how young people use digital technologies in multiple ways that defy the binaries of “literate” and “illiterate,” challenging the notion that young people are monolithic and ignorant users guided by behavioural instructions inscribed on their screens. Instead, interlocutors are portrayed as multi-layered social actors who redefine what digital literacy means.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\t\u003cstrong\u003eDigital and social inequalities:\u003c\/strong\u003e Despite increasing access to the Internet and personal media devices, existing digital inequalities remain closely intertwined with broader issues of social (in)mobility and exclusion. This book shows how young people left behind at the margins of affluent urban spaces are using digital technologies to connect with others and create their own spaces of meaning-making. It discusses how unemployment, chronic waiting, and regimented schedules shape their digital practices and their experiences of the world. Such a contextualised approach is of great importance in understanding the interplay between digital technologies and the diverse social, cultural, economic, and political circumstances in which digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Suzana Jovicic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48826529382651,"sku":"9781807580155","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/digital-flaneurs-9781807580155","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}