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The class: living and learning in the digital age

Livingstone, Sonia ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862 and Sefton-Green, Julian (2016) The class: living and learning in the digital age. Connected Youth and Digital Futures. NYU Press, New York, NY. ISBN 9781479824243

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Abstract

Do 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.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: https://nyupress.org/books/9781479824243
Additional Information: © 2016 New York University
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
L Education > L Education (General)
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2015 12:31
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:56
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/64369

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