Ben Agger

Texting Toward Utopia (eBook, ePUB)

Kids, Writing, and Resistance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the contemporary era where parents complain that children today don't do their homework because they are distracted by the Internet, texting, and video games. Texting Toward Utopia presents the writings of todays children and develops the argument that this is actually a time of mass literary, in which young people write furiously, albeit often below the adult radar. Agger argues that where texting replaces textbooks, the writing may be emoticon-laden, slangy, or terse, but it is still profound, as children (and their parents) engage in resistance and write for a better world. This book is a guide to understanding the meeting point between a new generation of children and new communication technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317250647
• Artikelnr.: 49352719

Autorenporträt

Ben Agger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Arlington, where he directs the Center for Theory. His most recent book is Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I New Sites of Writing, Writers, Writings
Chapter 1 The Book Unbound
Chapter 2 Secret Writing
Chapter 3 Reading Kids' Writing Politically
Chapter 4 The Pulpless Generation(s)
Chapter 5 E-Sociologies of Virtual Selves
Part II Time Rebels
Chapter 6 iTime
Chapter 7 Slacking toward Slowmodernity
Chapter 8 Time Robbers, Time Rebels
Chapter 9 Time Wars and Night Moves
Chapter 10 "I Hate School"
Part III Writing toward Identity and Democracy
Chapter 11 Text Messages in a Bottle
Chapter 12 Bodies of Knowledge
Chapter 13 Democracy in the First Person