The Class : Living and Learning in the Digital Age / Sonia Livingstone, Julian Sefton-Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingstone, Sonia M., Author.

Sefton-Green, Julian, Author.

Series:

Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Connected Youth and Digital Futures ; 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Technology and youth--Social aspects--England--London.

Technology and youth.

Internet and teenagers--Social aspects--England--London.

Internet and teenagers.

Information society--Social aspects--England--London.

Information society.

Digital media--Social aspects--England--London.

Digital media.

Teenagers--England--London--Attitudes.

Teenagers.

Teenagers--Education--England--London.

Teenagers--Social conditions--England--London.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

NYU Press 2016

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world.Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.orgDo today’s youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?Based upon fieldwork at an ordinary London school, The Class examines young people's experiences of growing up and learning in a digital world. In this original and engaging study, Livingstone and Sefton-Green explore youth values, teenagers’ perspectives on their futures, and their tactics for facing the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. The authors follow the students as they move across their different social worlds—in school, at home, and with their friends, engaging in a range of activities from video games to drama clubs and music lessons. By portraying the texture of the students’ everyday lives, The Class seeks to understand how the structures of social class and cultural capital shape the development of personal interests, relationships and autonomy. Providing insights into how young people’s social, digital, and learning networks enable or disempower them, Livingstone and Sefton-Green reveal that the experience of disconnections and blocked pathways is often more common than that of connections and new opportunities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Invitation to Meet the Class

1. Living and Learning in the Digital Age

2. A Year of Fieldwork

3. Networks and Social Worlds

4. Identities and Relationships

5. Life at School: From Routines to Civility

6. Learning at School: Measuring and “Leveling” the Self

7. Life at Home Together and Apart

8. Making Space for Learning in the Home

9. Learning to Play Music: Class, Culture, and Taste

10. Life Trajectories, Social Mobility, and Cultural Capital

Conclusion: Conservative, Competitive, or Connected

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781479863570

1479863572

OCLC:

945095825