CFP - Rethinking Youth Cultures In The Age Of Global Media, final conference

Rethinking Youth Cultures In The Age Of Global Media

Conference: Friday 17th June 2011, Institute Of Education, London

Young people now have significantly greater access to globalised media and to technologies that can form and sustain transnational connections; many have also experienced global migration, and live in communities in which a wide range of global cultures mix and cross-fertilise. Media companies for their part are constructing and targeting global markets in which definitions of ‘age’ are stretched and/or inconsistent, whilst in general the role of media and consumption in contemporary culture has undergone significant shifts. Such developments have posed a challenge to some of the theoretical and methodological assumptions of earlier research on youth cultures. This conference, the final event in an ESRC-funded seminar series exploring these issues, will consider current and future directions for youth cultures research in the context of media globalisation.

Keynote speakers include:

Ritty Lukose (New York University, author of ‘Liberalisation’s Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India’) on ‘The Space-Time of Youth: Globalization and Generation’ and

Mary Celeste Kearney (University of Texas, author of ‘Girls Make Media’) on ‘Rethinking Our Frames: Contexualizing Girls' Media Production’.

In addition, the day will feature parallel panel presentations by some of those involved in the seminar series and conclude with a roundtable reflecting on the themes of the conference and the series, with Anoop Nayak, Christine Griffin, Hilary Pilkington, Rupa Huq and others.

We have a limited number of slots for additional papers and panels on relevant topics such as: youth and new media; theories of youth culture; youth as consumers; migration, transnationalism and diaspora; identities, differences and inequalities; youth as media producers and participants; and methods in youth research. If you would like to propose a paper or a themed panel, please send a title plus a 200-word abstract and author information to FELS-youthculture@open.ac.uk before Friday 11th March 2011.

We are keeping the cost of attendance at the conference low at just £20 (to cover lunch, refreshments and a closing reception). To reserve a place and arrange payment, please email FELS-youthculture@open.ac.uk.

The organisers

David Buckingham, Institute of Education Mary Jane Kehily and Sara Bragg, Open University