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Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Youth and New Media: Studying Identity and

Meaning in an Evolving Media Environment . . . . . 4

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A. New media: A definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2. Media and the Construction of Identity . . . . . . . 5

A. Subjectification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

B. The study of everyday practices . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3. Media Influence on Society:

Old Concerns, New Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A. Competing utopian and dystopian paradigms . 7

B. The child as political opportunity

and nostalgic fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4. (Re)conceptualizing Child and New Media

for Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

5. Transformations in Youth Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

A. Transformations of home and family . . . . . . . 10

B. Transformations in social practices . . . . . . . . 11

C. Transformations in learning practices . . . . . . 11

D. Transformations in media literacy . . . . . . . . . 12

6. New Conceptualizations for Media Research . . . 12

A. The logic of new media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

B. New social operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

C. Privacy and safety in networked publics . . . . 16

7. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Walter J. Ong, S.J., as an American Catholic Thinker:

On the Occasion of the Ong Centenary Year . . . 23

A. Walter Ong and Marshall McLuhan . . . . . . . . 24

B. The basics of Ong’s thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

C. Recommended reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

D. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Briefly Noted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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