This book is the result of an ethnographic study of everyday practices of new media communication among teenagers in Poland. It follows several dozen young people to provide insights on the emergent reality of mobile online life. It is about hanging out, loving, sharing passions and learning in the age of the networked digital media. Youth and Media explores the new forms of cultural participation as the most fundamental coordinates of the social space are reshaped by these new technologies.

This book is the result of an ethnographic study of everyday practices of new media communication among teenagers in Poland. It follows several dozen young people to provide insights on the emergent reality of mobile online life. It is about hanging out, loving, sharing passions and learning in the age of the networked digital media. Youth and Media explores the new forms of cultural participation as the most fundamental coordinates of the social space are reshaped by these new technologies.