Main description:

This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS).

The book addresses four objectives:

1. To understand how young peoples' subcultures arise online and they are constructed and experienced in DSS

2. To understand how and why DSS matter to young people

3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these online spaces and

4. To understand how identity locations such as social class, gender and ethnicity and/or their intersections shape young peoples' engagement and behaviour(s) in DSS.

In addressing these objectives with a focus on European contributions, the text provides a holistic understanding of the purpose of digital social spaces in shaping young peoples' identities and self-perceptions. It will be of interest to postgraduate students, secondary school teachers, lecturers and scholars in education, sociology, youth studies and technology.

Contents:

Part I: Contextualising the digital youth subcultural field; theory, methods and ethics

1. What are digital youth subcultures and why do they matter?

2. Researching youth subcultures; methodology, methods and ethics

Part II: Transgressive Youth? Explorations in digital social spaces

SPORT

3. Riding, Filming and Posting. Skateboard professionals and transgressive uses of digital media

4. Transgressive with knowledge: the construction of the traceur in digital social space.

MUSIC

5. 'If you know, you know'. 1990s Ravers' classed and gendered transgressive engagement in digital social spaces

6. 'This is NOT Rap'. Boundary-works and symbolic violence in YouTube-based music subcultures

SEX AND THE BODY

7. Exploring the endurance of phallogocentric power relations in young people's digital sexual cultures

8. 'Porking Pippi Longstocking' and other Erotic Stories: Illicit Bodies in the Classroom

Part III: Conclusions, reflections and recommendations

9. Looking at Transgression Through a New Lens

10. Drawing the threads together: conclusions and recommendations