Books in the Mediated Youth series

Growing Up With Girl Power considers how real girls who grew up with girl power interpreted its messages about empowerment, girlhood, strength, femininity, race, and more, and suggests that for young girls, commercialized girl power had real strengths and limitations - sometimes in fascinating, unexpected ways.

Focusing on the representation and reception of the princess, this collection sheds new light on the position of princess cultures mediating the lives, imaginations, and identities of girls from toddlers to teenagers - and beyond.

This book examines contemporary celebrity culture with an emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured, how fan communities are cultivated, and how young audiences consume and aspire to fame.

Addresses the integration of popular music culture, corporate branding, and young people's mediated cultural practices. This book is based on extensive ethnographic empirical research, drawing on participant observation, textual analysis and interviews with young people, musicians, marketers and other participants in the cultural industries.

This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls' sexuality in the media. The use of ethnographic data, in conjunction with media analysis techniques, provides a unique approach to the media studies genre, which tends to highlight an analysis of media content, as opposed to the ways in which media is used in everyday life.

Analyzes transnational research on youth media production and distribution projects both in and out of school. With comprehensive theoretical analysis, notes, and bibliographies, this title illuminates the variety and diversity of youth media projects around the world. It is suitable for students and scholars in the field.

With comprehensive theoretical analysis, notes, and bibliographies, this title illuminates the variety and diversity of youth media projects around the world. It provides a comprehensive list of programs, projects, research reports, and publications relating to youth media - an important resource for scholars and students in the field.

This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls' sexuality in the media. The use of ethnographic data, in conjunction with media analysis techniques, provides a unique approach to the media studies genre, which tends to highlight an analysis of media content, as opposed to the ways in which media is used in everyday life.

Bitten by Twilight

Taking a cultural studies approach, this title includes analysis of girls' media representations, media consumption, and media production. It contains studies of unexplored topics, such as feminist themes in teen magazines, girlmade memory books, girls' self-branding on YouTube, and the surveillance of girls via new media technologies.

Relying predominantly upon a textual analysis of trade publications from the 1980s and early 1990s, the book eloquently maps out the synergistic processes of the marketing, advertising, merchandising, and media industries as they slowly began to take interest in the girl and began to define her as a tween: an empowered female consumer who is no longer a child but not quite a teen.

Through in-depth interviews, this book explores how tween girls relate to media characters past and present, what they value in these relationships, and how these relationships have shaped their own identity and friendships.