Theoretical framework

The framework mixes theories from different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, media studies, and new literacy studies) in order to develop an analysis of latino/youth media practices across three societal realms/arenas. In a series of case studies, I would analyze the diverse kinds of participation, identities, and literacies that latino/hispanic youth develop at home, afterschool, and the internet. My analysis will take into account the different capitals that youth is able to access, gain, or loose as they do media practices, develop literacies, and participate.

Why? in order to provide a deeper understanding of the texture of the media practices that latino/hispanic youth are doing. The thick description of the practices will reveal how the variations of participation across realms are related to an uneven development of literacies, and the lack of cultural, social, and economic capitals.

By developing this framework I hope to grasp part of the complexity and diversity of the latino/hispanic youth digitally mediated everyday life, the interconnection among literacies and their uneven development, and the changes in participation and identities depending on the social realms/arenas/fields or contexts. All of that, between the the specific characteristics of a population of low and middle-low class, of a particular ethnicity and country of origin, and with specific volumes of capitals.

Participation

• Carpentier
• Jenkins
• Lave & Wenger
• Wenger
• Benkler
• Shirky
• Burns

Latino/hispanic

An specific segment of the population. Mexican origin immigrants

• Statistical data about demography, media consumption, internet.
• Familism and brokerism

Youth and digital media

Youth and technological change

learning outside of school

• Ito et al. 2010
• Jenkins 2006, 2009
• Gee 2004, 2007

social network sites

• boyd
• Watkins

Media Practices and the Practice Turn

• Couldry
• Tchasky

New Literacy Studies

this could also be explained as addressing the relationship between language, literacy and sociocultural practices.

• Gee
• Lankshear and Knobel
• Jenkins
• New London Group

Networked culture and media environment

digital devices, the internet, the web 2.0.

• Jenkins
• Benkler
• Varnelis

Capitals

• Bourdieu