CMNS 221 Chapter 4-3: Totally Wired: Youth and new media
Document Summary
New media and youth cultures of production and consumption. The buffy wars crystallised many issues surrounding cultural production, circulation, control and consumption in the fast-changing landscape of the new media. Notion of a dawning age of postmodern hyperreality" with borders between formerly separate areas of cultural life increasingly effaced in a media-saturated world where distinctions between the real and the imaginary became increasingly hazy. Technological developments posed a particular challenge to the conventional means through which producers and state agencies maintained control of cultural forms. The emergence of new media technologies had encouraged more active modes of media consumption. New media developments may also have impacted upon cultural allegiances and identities. The new potential for cultural production and participation in cyberspace might also have fed into a wider decentring" of identity in contemporary society, with individuals able to articulate an ever-widening range of diverse identities and selves.