Navigating iScapes: Australian Youth Constructing Identities and Social Relations in a Network Society

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Author(s)
Mallan, Kerry
Ashford, Barbara
Singh, Parlo
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
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This article extends Appadurai's notion of "scapes" to delineate what we see as "iScapes." We contend that iScapes captures the way online technologies shape interactions that invariably filter into offline contexts, giving shape and meaning to human actions and motivations. By drawing on research on high school students' online activities we examine the flow of iScapes they inhabit in the process of constructing identities and forming social relations. [identities, scapes, network society, youth, friends]This article extends Appadurai's notion of "scapes" to delineate what we see as "iScapes." We contend that iScapes captures the way online technologies shape interactions that invariably filter into offline contexts, giving shape and meaning to human actions and motivations. By drawing on research on high school students' online activities we examine the flow of iScapes they inhabit in the process of constructing identities and forming social relations. [identities, scapes, network society, youth, friends]
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Journal Title
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume
41
Issue
3
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© 2010 American Anthropological Association. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Sociology not elsewhere classified
Anthropology