In this Moodle lesson you will explore the inter-relationships between: YouTube and youth culture
Definitions:
Youth:
- young person: a young person (especially a young man or boy)
- young: young people collectively;
- the time of life between childhood and maturity
- early maturity;
- the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
- an early period of development;
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
Culture:
- a particular society at a particular time and place;
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- acculturation: all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
Youth culture:
- youth-directed media and popular culture
- youth-as-trouble
- youth-as-fun
- youth-as-future
- youth-as-confusing tribe
Youth culture is most usefully defined as a field of artifacts, identities and practices which are circulated by youth as about and for youth.
(Driscoll, C. & Gregg, M. (2008). Broadcast yourself: moral panic, youth culture and internet studies. Pre-print of published chapter appearing in Usha Rodrigues (ed), Youth and Media in the Asia-Pacific Region,Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge)
Engage
Related pre-test question: Is YouTube its own culture?
Watch this Power Point Presentation: Mobile Youth Tribes
The Mobile Youth Culture of Tribes
Understanding youth culture is not easy. This presentation defines tribes are core to youth culture. With Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, for example, young people’s values are no longer based on where they live (geography), but how they live (lifestyle).
Explore
Related pre-test question: What role does YouTube play in defining youth culture?
YouTube tribes & communities
Scroll through this YouTube video to see the numbers.
Have a look at this YouTube video to explore the meaning of community.
Positive youth roles
Dangerous zones: the beginning of this video shows you what is on the web about eating disorders (note that to see pro-anorexia videos, one needs to sign in)