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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"youth culture"”.
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Consuming Talk: Youth Culture and the Mobile Phone
… and the commensurate advent of mobile phone culture can be seen as interrelated with contemporary youth culture. This thesis addresses how young people make use of the mobile phone in their everyday lives, and how these practices demonstrate forms of cultural creativity and agency. Youth …
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Global and transnational flows and local Cree youth culture
… result of an ethnographic study of identity and culture of young people within a context of dramatic social and economic change. A discussion is presented on ways in which young people in an eastern James Bay Cree community are interpreting and using extralocal flows of cultural symbols, ideas …
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Suburban Nation: An Investigation of Suburban Ideology and Youth Culture
… are experienced by residents - particularly youth - in the Canadian context. While the suburb has often been depicted as something that is either wholly good or wholly bad, this work seeks to complicate such understandings by examining some of the contradictory ways in which suburbia is …
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Youth Culture and the Politics of Youth in 1960s Cuba
The triple coordinates of youth, the Sixties and the Cuban Revolution interact to create a rich but relatively unexplored field of historical research. Previous studies of youth in Cuba have assumed a separation between young people and the Revolution, and either objectify young people as units …
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Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization
… some of the cultural practices central to youth activist subcultures across three urban centres in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. I undertake this work within the context of rising moral and state claims about the apparent need for ‘good citizenship’ to be exercised by young …
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Contemporary Urban Youth Culture in China: A Multiperspectival Cultural Studies of Internet Subcultures
<p>This study explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through examining how media technologies such as the Internet empower contemporary Chinese urban youth. Using Douglas Kellner’s (1995) multiperspectival cultural studies, specifically cultural studies, critical theory, and critical …
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Deliver Me From The Days Of Old: Rock And Roll, Youth Culture, And The Civil Rights Movement
… presented as an undisputed success in mainstream culture and educational curricula, but scholars continue to question whether the widespread protests against racial segregation and inequality that swept the nation in the 1950s and 1960s led to meaningful economic, or social change. These …
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An Oral History Investigation into Fashion Practices in British Motorcycle Youth Culture in the Period 1945 to 1966
… the dress and consumption practices in British youth motorcycle subcultures in the post-war period through the collection of oral histories from motorcyclists active in the period 1945 to 1966. Interdisciplinary in nature, it incorporates and critiques existing subcultural and post-subcultural …
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The power of peers: mobile youth culture, homophily and informal learning among a group of South African youth
… Khayelitsha, and were members of a non-profit youth development organisation, Ikamva Youth, participating in beginner coding classes. This study explored what they had already learned about ICTs from their networks of close interpersonal relationships (n=133) and asked them how they felt about …
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Art and Youth Culture of the Post-Reformasi Era: Social Engagement, Alternative Expression, and the Public Sphere in Yogyakarta
This thesis examines the development of contemporary art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in the post-Reformasi era. Focusing on communities who consider themselves "alternative" to the mainstream commercial art world, I examine three aspects of art in Yogyakarta including collective organization, …
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Performing Ethnographic Inquiry into America's Black Youth Culture: The Impact of Hip Hop and Rap Music on Today's Youth Society
… is an ethnographic inquiry into America's black youth culture. It is an exploration of how the "hip hop culture" influences black youth culture. Drawing on the works of Rose (1994a, 1994b), Dimitriadis (2001), and Kitwana (2002), I explored impact of the hip hop culture in the areas of fashion, …
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New distinctions : the impact of class and race on the cultural preferences of youth in Cape Town and Belo Horizonte
… economical aspects while references to popular culture are commonly used to describe differences, often in combination with racial discourse, rather than explain them. As a result much of South African cultural sociology, especially with regards to youth culture, is entailed in in-depth …
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Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: the experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)
… through engaging in an emerging Namibian youth culture, which cuts across rural-urban, ethnic, and socio-economic divides. I argue that young migrants from Ovamboland, who intend to escape their poverty stricken rural homes and arrive on packed busses, bringing with them few possessions …
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Urban hybridity: an alternative development strategy for Woodstock
… with our local surroundings is changing. Youth culture generally tends to be more accepting toward change and trends, and is therefore noticeably affected by it.' As I see changes in myself and my peers, I am interested to understand how these changes subsequently affect my fields of …
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A hairy predicament: The problem with long hair in the 1960s and 1970s
… mid-1970s long hair worn by much of the American youth evoked little comment and indeed was considered fashionable. But during much of the previous two decades male hair length was a contentious issue that divided the generations. The struggle over hair in many ways epitomized the sixties …
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When The Counterculture Picked Up A Southern Twang: A Cultural Analysis Of Late Sixties And Early Seventies Country Rock Movement
… in the country-rock movement were mostly counterculture hippies, and they adopted country music to serve their own ends. There is no unified ideological thinking in this movement. Some musicians were political while others were not. Music critics generally agree that country rock was a cultural …
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Communicative 2.0 : video games and digital culture in the foreign language classroom
I explore two core concepts in today's youth entertainment culture that will increasingly become central in future attempts to design affordable foreign language learning materials that hope to bridge the chasm between education and foreign popular culture. In the process, I outline a series of …
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Youth…Power…Egypt: The Development of Youth as a Sociopolitical Concept and Force in Egypt, 1805-1923
<p>This study focuses on youth as a symbol, metaphor, and subject involved in processes related to Egypt’s modernization, colonization, and liberation from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the 1919 Egyptian Revolution. It demonstrates that youth was not simply an unchanging stage of …
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