TAILIEUCHUNG - Mobile Communication and Society_ A Global Perspective - Manuel Castells2

. | 4 The Mobile Youth Culture By youth culture we mean the specific system of values and beliefs that inform behavior in a given age group so that it shows distinctive features vis à vis other age groups in society. This culture has to be placed in the context of a given social structure. In other words we do not refer here to a transhistorical analysis of the meaning of youth but to the cultural specificity of youth in the social structure that characterizes our time the network society. For a definition of the network society and the justification for our statement concerning its structuring role in our time we refer the reader to the proper sources Beck 1992 Castells 2000b 2004 Himanen 2001 Capra 2002 and concentrate here on the issues that are the object of our current research. A fundamental hypothesis in our analysis is that there is a youth culture that finds in mobile communication an adequate form of expression and reinforcement. Technologies all technologies diffuse only to the extent that they resonate with pre-existing social structures and cultural values. However once a powerful technology is adopted by a given culture because it fits into its pattern the technology grows and embraces an ever-greater proportion of its group of reference in this case young people. Our analysis will try to specify this proposition. Namely we will try to identify the content of this youth culture in Europe the Americas Africa and the Asian Pacific and see how it fits into the pattern of mobile communication how it transforms mobile communication and how it is strengthened and influenced by communication technology. We believe that some basic cultural trends are applicable to differing contexts albeit with the necessary specification of each culture and institutional setting. Much existing research on mobile youth culture s is concentrated on Europe where wireless technologies have diffused widely among the younger generations especially in North and West Europe attracting .

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