The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Digital Natives in the Peri-Urban Jungle: Young People Making Sense of Their Use of Social/Digital Media

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Title: The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Digital Natives in the Peri-Urban Jungle: Young People Making Sense of Their Use of Social/Digital Media
Language: English
Authors: Smyth, John, Harrison, Tim
Source: Educational Practice and Theory. 2015 37(1):5-17.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2015
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
Descriptors: Social Media, Multimedia Materials, Electronic Publishing, Adolescents, Films, Field Studies, Notetaking, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Interviews, High School Students, Video Technology, Grade 10, Grade 11, Urban Areas, Educational Certificates, Vocational Education, Technology Uses in Education, Parent Student Relationship
Geographic Terms: Australia
DOI: 10.7459/ept/37.1.02
ISSN: 1323-577X
Abstract: The way young people engage with and make sense of digital/social media is not quite what it seems. In this paper we present two quite different versions, drawing on the work of political scientist James C. Scott. On the one hand, there is the 'public' or official transcript or rendition, which comprises the way adults conceive of this usage, and in which young people acquiesce with. On the other hand, in order to subvert the former, what is going on concurrently, is a hidden transcript which is opaque to outsiders and is revealed only to other young 'insiders'. Acquiescing with the former, in a sense, provides young people with the space in which to construct a much more resistant version of their usage of digital media.
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 21
Entry Date: 2018
Accession Number: EJ1177547
Database: ERIC
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