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Everyday Learning about Identities among Young Adolescents in Television Culture
Author(s) -
Fisherkeller JoEllen
Publication year - 1997
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 - 10.1525/aeq.1997.28.4.467
Subject(s) - sociology , reciprocal , identity (music) , persona , everyday life , television studies , cultural identity , qualitative research , cultural learning , cultural studies , popular culture , power (physics) , psychology , media studies , pedagogy , social science , anthropology , aesthetics , epistemology , humanities , linguistics , negotiation , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Using a cultural studies approach, this study situates three young adolescents in their home, neighborhood, school, and peer cultures, and contextually analyzes their uses and interpretations of television. Analyses of each student's favorite television persona illuminate each of their identity projects, which are a primary kind of cultural acquisition process. I find qualitative differences in their everyday learning within television culture as compared to local cultures, although their learning about social power across cultures is reciprocal.