Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
Imaginary Activism
Authors: Moosbrugger, Megan
Free Preview- A timely contribution to current scholarly debates about the ideological representation of digital technology in young adult fiction
- Offers a compelling narrative of how digital life shapes young people's identity and activism through readings of a range of authors such as Salman Rushdie, Cory Doctorow, and Julie Ann Peters
- Engages the critical contemporary issue of posthumanism by providing a sophisticated reading of the complex intersection of young adult bodies with the non-organic.
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- About this book
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This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their identities and choices as citizens in a digital culture
- About the authors
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Megan L. Musgrave is Assistant Professor of English in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA.
- Reviews
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“This book is a timely contribution to current scholarly debates about the ideological representation of digital technology in YA fiction. Musgrave argues that a comprehensive critical discourse has emerged in recent years in response to YA science fiction and dystopian fiction, but realism has largely been ignored. This book redresses this situation. Musgrave shows that digital media is reality for young people, evaluating how digital media can both enhance human experience and render it dysfunctional.” (Victoria Flanagan, Senior Lecturer in English, Macquarie University, Australia, and author of “Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction”)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Cyborg Bodies in Illness and Disability Narratives
Pages 1-46
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Cyborg Minds at Play in Participatory Cultures, or, Going Public in Private
Pages 47-88
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Gamer Guys: Playing with Civic Responsibility in Ludic Fiction
Pages 89-128
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Gamer Girls: Going Online in the Age of Misogynist Terrorism
Pages 129-165
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Imaginary Activism
Pages 167-203
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
- Book Subtitle
- Imaginary Activism
- Authors
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- Megan Moosbrugger
- Series Title
- Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-58173-0
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-58173-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-60272-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95640-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXII, 230
- Topics
