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2006 Volume 3, Number 2

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Table of Contents

Number of articles: 9

  1. "MSN Was the next Big Thing after Beanie Babies": Children's Virtual Experiences as an Interface to Their Identities and Their Everyday Lives

    Angela Thomas

    In this article the author explores the seamlessness between children's online and offline worlds. For children, there is no dichotomy of online and offline, or virtual and real; the digital is so ... More

    pp. 126-142

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  2. "Getting the Reader on Side": Exploring Adolescent Online Political Discourse

    Sally Humphrey

    In recent years there has been growing awareness of the need to support primary and secondary students in developing competencies for active and participatory citizenship. Among the essential... More

    pp. 143-157

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  3. Cybergirls: Negotiating Social Identities on Cybersites

    Barbara J. Guzzetti

    Cyberspace has been regarded as an ideal site for adolescents' identity exploration since it is socially mediated. Liberal cyberfeminists argue that virtual spaces promote gender equality, fluidity... More

    pp. 158-169

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  4. Language, Culture, and Identity in Online Fanfiction

    Rebecca W. Black

    This article draws on constructs in second-language acquisition, literacy, cultural, and media studies as theoretical bases for examining how networked technologies and fan culture provide a young ... More

    pp. 170-184

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  5. The Aesthetic Production and Distribution of Image/Subjects among Online Youth

    Kevin Leander & Amy Frank

    In this article the authors consider how youth engage in social practices of identity through their online practices with images. Although they build on social practice perspectives, informed by... More

    pp. 185-206

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  6. Making Known Differently: Engaging Visual Modalities as Spaces to Author New Selves

    Lalitha Vasudevan

    In the increasingly digital and multimodal landscape of adolescents' literacies, it is particularly interesting to explore how young people are making and remaking their identities in online and... More

    pp. 207-216

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  7. Affinities and beyond! Developing Ways of Seeing in Online Spaces

    Julia Davies

    This article presents an insider view of an online community of adults involved in sharing digital photography through a host website, Flickr. It describes how reciprocal teaching and learning... More

    pp. 217-234

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  8. Identity, Social Networks and Online Communication

    Guy Merchant

    Arguments about whether or not the Internet is creating new people or simply helping us to see ourselves in new ways are threaded through the literature on digital culture. People make new... More

    pp. 235-244

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  9. Categories, Gender and Online Community

    Jonathan Paul Marshall

    This article presents a sketch for a theory of the rhetorics involved in categorisation and the creation of culture in online communities. Persuasion, or shaping perceptions of the world, is never ... More

    pp. 245-262

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