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Navigating iScapes: Australian Youth Constructing Identities and Social Relations in a Network Society
Author(s) -
Mallan Kerry,
Ashford Barbara,
Singh Parlo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2010.01087.x
Subject(s) - sociology , meaning (existential) , identity (music) , process (computing) , filter (signal processing) , social relation , social identity theory , epistemology , gender studies , social science , aesthetics , social group , computer science , philosophy , computer vision , operating system
This article extends Appadurai's notion of “scapes” to delineate what we see as “iScapes.” We contend that iScapes captures the way online technologies shape interactions that invariably filter into offline contexts, giving shape and meaning to human actions and motivations. By drawing on research on high school students' online activities we examine the flow of iScapes they inhabit in the process of constructing identities and forming social relations . [identities, scapes, network society, youth, friends]