Youth culture and net culture : online social practices / Elza Dunkels, Gun-Marie Franberg and Camilla Hallgren, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: Context of Net Cultures -- Chapter 1: Young People and Online Risk / Elza Dunkels, Gun-Marie Fran̊berg, Camilla Hal̈lgren -- Chapter 2: Youth and Online Social Networking: From Local Experiences to Public Discourses / Malene Charlotte Larsen, Thomas Ryberg -- Chapter 3: Swedish Students Online: An Inquiry into Differing Cultures on the Internet / Hak̊an Selg -- Section 2: Identity -- Chapter 4: Fat Talk: Constructing the Body through Eating Disorders Online among Swedish Girls / Ann-Charlotte Palmgren -- Chapter 5: To Be Continued ... Fan Fiction and the Constructing of Identity / Patrik Wikstrom̈ -- Chapter 6: Digital Neighbourhoods: A Sociological Perspective on the Forming of Self-Feeling Online / Ulrik Log̈dlund, Marcin de Kaminski -- Chapter 7: The Use of Interactive Media in Identity Construction by Female Undergraduates in a Nigerian University / Oyewole Jaiyeola Aramide -- Chapter 8: The Representation of Female Friendships on Young Women's MySpace Profiles: The All-Female World and the Feminine 'Other' / Amy Shields Dobson -- Chapter 9: YouTube as a Performative Arena: How Swedish Youth are Negotiating Space, Community Membership, and Gender Identities through the Art of Parkour / S. Faye Hendrick, Simon Lindgren -- Section 3: Identity and Sexuality -- Chapter 10: Young People and Cybersex in a Sexually Conservative Society: A Case Study from Mauritius / Komalsingh Rambaree -- Chapter 11: Youth, Sexuality and the Internet: Young People's Use of the Internet to Learn about Sexuality / Kristian Daneback, Cecilia Lof̈berg -- Chapter 12: Adolescents and Online Dating Attitudes / Olugbenga David Ojo -- Chapter 13: The Role of Internet Newsgroups in the Coming-Out Process of Gay Male Youth: An Israeli Case Study / Avi Marciano -- Section 4: Contemporary Challenges -- Chapter 14: The Competent Youth's Exposure of Teachers at YouTube.se / Marcus Samuelsson -- Chapter 15: Moving from Cyber-Bullying to Cyber-Kindness: What do Students, Educators and Parents Say? / Wanda Cassidy, Karen Brown, Margaret Jackson -- Chapter 16: Electronic Aggression among Adolescents: An Old House with a New Facade (or Even a Number of Houses) / Jacek Pyzalski -- Chapter 17: Ways of ICT Usage among Mildly Intellectually Disabled Adolescents: Potential Risks and Advantages / Piotr Plichta -- Chapter 18: Gaming and Aggression: The Importance of Age-Appropriateness in Violent Video Games / Eva-Maria Schiller ... and others -- Chapter 19: Young People, Sexual Content and Solicitation Online / Kareena McAloney, Joanne E. Wilson -- Chapter 20: Spirituality in Cybercrime (Yahoo Yahoo) Activities among Youths in South West Nigeria / Agunbiade Ojo Melvin, Titilayo Ayotunde.

Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices aims to engage the complex relationship between technology and youth culture, while outlining the details of various online social activities. This book focuses on generational aspects of online social practices, as well as other facets, such as gender and social class. Presenting the views of young people regarding social practices is paramount in a time when the educational system, policymakers and non-governmental organizations are calling for this knowledge This book engages the complex relationship between technology and youth culture, while outlining the details of various online social activities.