MACMILLAN Youth Mediations and Affective Relations

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people’s affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences of young people as they actively use media in order to forge communities, play imaginatively, protest injustice, experiment with their identities, make media or explore friendships. Furthermore, it explores the relational and contextual dimensions of their everyday interactions. Against static knowledge and moral panics that abstract youth from the complex and changing worlds in which they grapple with digital media, this book hones in on the layered textures of youth experiences to consider how today’s youth think and feel in subtle and unexpected ways.  From the Back Cover Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people’s affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences of young people as they actively use media in order to forge communities, play imaginatively, protest injustice, experiment with their identities, make media or explore friendships. Furthermore, it explores the relational and contextual dimensions of their everyday interactions. Against static knowledge and moral panics that abstract youth from the complex and changing worlds in which they grapple with digital media, this book hones in on the layered textures of youth experiences to consider how today’s youth think and feel in subtle and unexpected ways.  About the Author Susan Driver is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at York University, Canada. Her previous books include Queer Girls and Popular Culture (Peter Lang, 2007) and Queer Youth Cultures (SUNY Press, 2008). Natalie Coulter is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at York University, Canada. She co-edited Locating the Tween Girl, a special issue of Girlhood Studies in 2018, and she is the author of Tweening the Girl (Peter Lang, 2014).