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'Getting Real': Lessons from RidgiDidge

Kate Liley-2004-01-01-Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia)

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The RidgiDidge Study is a qualitative research project that addresses the\nquestion of how new media technology figures in the lives of High School students in\nSouth Eastern Queensland. Criticism of young people’s media consumption\nhighlights a preoccupation with effects and behaviour, displaying a failure to\nacknowledge young people as social agents in their own right. The theoretical\nframework outlined here imbricates Sociology and Cultural Studies in the service of\nappropriately describing young people’s position in society and foregrounding agency\nin relation to media consumption. This might reasonably result in a non-judgemental\nand inter-generational understanding of young people’s media consumption at both\npolitical and community levels. With this in mind, the implementation of this\nframework in the RidgiDidge Study suggests that the domestication of media\ntechnologies is a more useful approach to understanding young people’s media\nconsumption than affordance, social

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The RidgiDidge Study is a qualitative research project that addresses the\nquestion of how new media technology figures in the lives of High School students in\nSouth Eastern Queensland. Criticism of young people’s media consumption\nhighlights a preoccupation with effects and behaviour, displaying a failure to\nacknowledge young people as social agents in their own right. The theoretical\nframework outlined here imbricates Sociology and Cultural Studies in the service of\nappropriately describing young people’s position in society and foregrounding agency\nin relation to media consumption. This might reasonably result in a non-judgemental\nand inter-generational understanding of young people’s media consumption at both\npolitical and community levels. With this in mind, the implementation of this\nframework in the RidgiDidge Study suggests that the domestication of media\ntechnologies is a more useful approach to understanding young people’s media\nconsumption than affordance, social

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ForegroundingConsumption (sociology)Media consumptionAgency (philosophy)AffordanceSociologySocial mediaTechnological determinism

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