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Revision as of 21:50, 6 October 2014

Working Titles

  • Crossing Many Worlds: New Media Practices, Identities, and Assimilation Trajectories of Latino/Hispanic Immigrant Youth in the U.S.
  • Navigating Many Worlds: New Media Practices, Identities, and Sociocultural Trajectories of Latino/Hispanic Immigrant Youth Growing-up in the U.S.

Abstract

In my dissertation project I try to understand how Latino/Hispanic immigrant youth (a sub-sample from the Digital Edge study) growing up in the U.S. actively navigate the process of incorporation into a new society in the early 21st Century. What kind of identities are they constructing? How are they leveraging new media tools and networks? and How are they learning to move across different sociocultural worlds? Through a series of case studies of five immigrant youths with Mexican origins (2 girls and 3 boys, ages 14-19), living in the Austin metropolitan area, working class socioeconomic background, and different generational status (1.5 and second-generation), I examine the relationships between new media practices, identity construction, and the process of assimilation to the U.S. I use a transdisciplinary framework in order to understand these relationships. Drawing on sociocultural theory of identity (Holland et al. 1998; Alzaldua 1999; McCarthey & Moje 2002); media and cultural theories of new media practice and participation (Jenkins 2006a, 2006b; Ito et. Al. 2010; Couldry 2012; Carpentier 2010; Livingstone 2002; Varnelis 2008); theories of digital inequality (Warschauer 2002; DiMaggio et al. 2004; Selwyn 2004; van Dijk 2005; Chen and Wellman 2005; Hargittai 2008; Stern et al. 2009; Schradie 2011; Watkins 2012); and sociological theory of segmented assimilation (Portes & Zhou 1993; Rumbaut 1996; Portes & Rumbaut 2001; Portes et. Al. 2005), I analyze how immigrant youth construct multiple identities as they engage in mediated activities across three different contexts: home, an after-school program, and the Internet. Through the diverse new media practices immigrant youth have within these contexts they create fluid identities, participate in different sociocultural worlds, and learn to navigate the cultural norms and expectations of specific spaces.


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