Browse Hierarchy CMC5010: Digital Media and Youth Identities

This module investigates issues in digital media use and identity among young people in a range of individual and social contexts. Students will consider how new forms and practices such as mobile phones and SMS, gaming and social networking sites offer new ways of expressing and communicating selfhood, and are shifting perceptions of private and public identity. The convergence of new technologies and of users/producers will be considered, and the commoditisation of virtual identities. Through the module, students will reflect on issues of engagement and exclusion in terms of gender, age, class and geopolitics, and also on adult perceptions and representations of digital worlds and their youthful inhabitants.