{"id":60106,"date":"2026-11-05T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/?post_type=article&p=60106"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:11:53","slug":"series-spotlight-mediated-youth","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/de\/article\/series-spotlight-mediated-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Spotlight – Mediated Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mediated Youth<\/em> first began 2007 in with the publication of Susan Driver\u2019s Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media<\/a><\/em>. Since then, it has published 36 volumes including titles by award winning scholars such as Mary Celeste Kearney, Nancy A. Jennings, Maya G\u00f6tz, Stacey J.T. Hust and Kathleen Boyce Rodgers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The series emerged from a scholarly landscape in which research on young people\u2019s media forced on youths as passive consumers (Kearney, 2009). Instead, the Mediated Youth<\/em> series welcomed works that, wherever possible, included the voices of young people themselves, thus shifting scholarly attention from studies about children and young people to research that was conducted with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For example, in 2011 the series published Annette Wannamaker\u2019s Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, teens and young men in popular media and culture<\/em><\/a>, and Mary Celeste Kearney\u2019s Mediated Girlhoods: New explorations of girls\u2019 media culture<\/a> <\/em>as companion pieces that addressed assumptions about the homogenous nature of girlhood and boyhood. The methodologies of both volumes privileged the experiences of girls and boys with the intent of centering their voices within scholarship. Both volumes provided \u201cmore dynamic means to conceptualize the complexity of young people\u2019s relationship with media culture\u201d and by deciding to publish the books as companion pieces, the series \u201copen[ed] up opportunities to assess the trajectories and oversights of the two fields\u201d (Coulter 2012, 354).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The series also responded to calls within the field to move away from feminist influenced scholarship, such as that of Simone de Beauvoir (1989), which studied female youth \u201conly as it related to\u2026 the social construction of women\u201d (Kearney, 2009). Instead, works in the series contributed to a growing body of work that moved \u201caway from studying girls as future women [emphasis added] and toward analyzing girls as members of a unique demographic group\u201d (Kearney, 2009). For example, Currie, Kelly and Pomerantz\u2019s 2009 book \u2018Girl Power\u2019: Girls Reinventing Girlhood<\/em><\/a> \u201cdistinguish[ed] between \u2018girlhood\u2019 as a cultural ideal, and girls as the embodied agents through which girlhood becomes a social accomplishment\u201d (Currie et al., 2009).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Likewise, Harper et al.\u2019s edited collection, Girls\u2019 Sexualities and the Media<\/a><\/em>, published as volume 23 in the series, expanded existing sexualities literature to foreground \u201cthe voices of other girls whose voices are often ignored particularly racial\/ethnic minority and indigenous girls, sexual minorities, and girls from non-U.S. settings\u201d (Harper et al. 2013). The series therefore made a significant contribution to the development of the field by publishing works that envisioned youth (and particularly girlhood) experiences as a distinct category of enquiry that required and enabled distinct modes of enquiry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As the field of youth studies developed and expanded, the series responded by foregrounding perspectives from marginalized, international, and intersectional experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For example, Park and Lemish\u2019s 2019 volume KakaoTalk and Facebook: Korean American Youth Constructing Hybrid Identities<\/a><\/em> highlighted that \u201ctraditional assumptions about assimilation of second-generation immigrants into a host society and suggest that digital technologies facilitate the process of segmented assimilation, according to which ethnic identities continue to play a central role in the identity of children of immigrants\u201d (Park and Lemish, 2019). Ruth Nicole Brown\u2019s earlier volume Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy<\/a><\/em>, published as volume five in the series, passionately advocated for the celebration of Black girlhood and argued that \u201cthat hip-hop is not only music, but also an effective way of working with Black girls\u201d while also recognizing \u201cthe everyday work many young women of color are doing, outside of mainstream categories, to create social change by painting an unconventional picture of how complex \u2013 and necessary \u2013 the goal of Black girl celebration can be\u201d (Brown, 2009).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Works in the series have also addressed specific themes with interdisciplinary approaches. While girls\u2019 princess culture has generated scholarly enquiry, the series published the first volume to bring together international and interdisciplinary perspectives (Forman-Brunell and Haines, 2015). A 2015 volume published in the series established Dolls Studies as an interdisciplinary filed of scholarly enquiry (Forman-Brunell and Whitney, 2015) and the series even published one of the first edited collections that positioned the Twilight series of books and films as a category of enquiry that could provide new understandings of \u201crecurrent messages about youth, gender roles, romance, and sexuality\u201d (Click et al., 2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Sharon Mazzerala winds down her role as series editor for the series, Natalie Coulter takes over and will lead the series through a shift in re-defining what we mean and understand by Mediated as young people\u2019s media and digital lives become more complex. Stay tuned for more reflections from Natalie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aguil\u00f3-P\u00e9rez, E. R. Princess Cultures: Mediating Girls\u2019 Imaginations and Identities. [Review]. American Journal of Play, 8(3), 397-399.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, R. N. (2009). Black Girlhood Celebration. https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1104520<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click, M. A., Stevens Aubrey, J., & Behm-Morawitz, E. (2010). Bitten by Twilight. https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1050952<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coulter, N. (2012) Separate Playgrounds: Surveying the Fields of Girls\u2019 Media Studies and Boyhood Studies. [Review of Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture. Edited by Annette Wannamaker. (2011). Mediated Girlhoods: New Exploration of Girls\u2019 Media Culture. Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney. (2011).] Canadian Journal of Communication. 37(1), (pp. 353 – 363).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currie, D. H., Kelly, D. M., & Pomerantz, S. (2009). \u2018Girl Power.\u2019 https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1143770<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauvoir, Simone de. (1949) 1989. The Second Sex. Trans. H. M. Parshley. New York: Knopf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forman-Brunell, M., & Hains, R. C. (2013). Princess Cultures. https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1118265<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forman-Brunell, M., & Whitney, J. D. (2015). Dolls Studies. https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1118266<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper, K., Katsulis, Y., Lopez, V., & Scheiner Gillis, G. (2013). Girls\u2019 Sexualities and the Media. https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1051372<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kearney, M. C. (2009). Coalescing: The Development of Girls\u2019 Studies. NWSA Journal, 21(1), 1\u201328. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20628153<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park, J., & Lemish, D. (2019). 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