Youth Culture explores how teenagers use the internet, the new political engagement of young voters, the withering of adulthood, the creation and history of “adolescence,” how anxiety and performance are medicalized for today’s students, and the emergence of a world youth culture.

Youth Culture

Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2009)

Introduction

ESSAYS

Wither Adulthood?

James Davison Hunter

(Re)inventing Adolescence

Kent Baxter

Adolescents and the Pathologies of the Achieving Self

Joseph E. Davis

The Internet and Youth Culture

Gustavo S. Mesch

A Generation Apart: Youth Voters and the 2008 Presidential Election

Anna Greenberg

REPORT FROM THE FIELD

Youth Culture in a “Faraway Place”

Murray Milner, Jr.

POEM

Immature Song

Robert Pinsky

BOOKS

Review of Stephen Burt’s The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence

Wilson Brissett

Review of John Palfrey and Urs Gasser’s Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

Felicia Song

Review of Sarah Banet-Weiser’s Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship

Ashley Rogers Berner

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW

A Bibliographic Essay on Youth Culture

Emily O. Gravett

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