With the growing use of digital camera and internet album, it brings a new internet visual culture called as ¡§internet self-portrait culture¡¨ in Taiwan. Internet users take digital self-portrait photos, upload self-portrait onto personal websites like blog or internet album, and communicate with people in this way. This culture is much popular especially among the adolescents (aged form 12 to 24) in Taiwan. This research refers to what kind of effects this new internet visual culture brings to the adolescents, especially focusing on the effect it brings to self-identity development and social relation. And interview is adopted in this research. According to the result, first, internet self-portrait culture could be seen as an adolescent sub-culture. In this subculture, the adolescents develop a series of communicative methods like ¡§to see¡¨ and ¡§to be seen¡¨. In this way, the adolescents chase for chances and stages for ¡§showing oneself¡¨, and the ¡§beautiful looks¡¨ is the main point of the show. ¡§Chasing for aesthetics of body¡¨ and ¡§everyone having equal and unique prettiness¡¨ are the two important values in this subculture. As for self-identity, participating in internet self-portrait culture brings the adolescents the experience of alternative role playing experience. Moreover, it helps build up self-confidence and positive self-identity on looks. As for social relation, it helps the adolescents keep in touch with the old friends and brings them new friends who help the adolescents build self-confidence on looks. Besides, participating in internet self-portrait culture could be seen as a way for the adolescents to retrieve ¡§freedom of making friends¡¨ and ¡§freedom of managing one¡¦s own body¡¨ from their parents.

Thèse de doctorat : Sociologie : Rennes 2 : 2009. / Titre provenant de l'écran titre. Bibliogr. f. 255-266. Index des noms et des notions.

Title from title page of PDF (University of Missouri--St. Louis, viewed February 22, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-201).

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of nine different students in three American public high schools, their experimentation with alcohol and drugs, and their respective processes of identity formation. While much work has done to establish the relevant and various paths towards finding identity in the American adolescent and in the fields of American education, public schooling, and youth culture, this work attempts to offer a specific presentation of what the path towards finding identity looks like in the American classroom for students who also experiment with alcohol and drugs. The nine students are presented in this work via three different category types of identity formations: Creativity Through Chemical, Charisma Through Chemical, and Challenge Through Chemical. The presentation of the students is ethnographic in nature given the various strengths and attributes of the ethnographic approach. The classroom is a valuable location for establishing a unique perspective on adolescent self-expression, a place where students’ projections and the perceptions of others are intertwined. What students experience in the classroom as a group and individually is a meaningful element to their evolving identities. This work establishes the significance of these experiences in conjunction with the students’ experimentation with alcohol and drugs. Adolescence, as a period for young people of identifying with group culture and as an individual while differentiating between right and wrong is a significant developmental phase. This work acknowledges the communities in which these students are engaged, their respective high school communities, the relevant details of each classroom, and explicates the details of their processes of identity formation for these nine students within the context of their classroom cultures. / text

Lunkevichof Massiene Violeta The influence of Television as Subculture Media on the Upbringing of 5-7 year- old Children Magister’s Work on Educology Scientific Head, Associate Professor Doctor Vitolda Glebuviene Vilnius Pedagogical University The Department of Childhood studiing. During the period of 2004-2005 the research “A child in the society of changing information” was carried out and it was approved by Vilnius Pedagogical University. The aim of this research was to find out the world of a today’s child and his peculiarities, activities that influence a child in the process of bringing up nowaday. A great attention is allways paid to the upbringing of a child’s individuality, new modern methods are used. However, other activities influence the development of a child as well. One of them is mass media. According to the facts of the research, the analysis and comparison have been done to find out that similiarities and differences are among the children who are restricted to watch television programmes and those who are not. Law standards and statue regulate the activity of mass media very little. Both television and the press often avoid the protection of a child’s rights and interests garanteed by the State. The main selection criterion for presenting mass media to the society is often not the urgency and importance of the news, but the commercial factor. Parents’ surveys about the influence of mass media are often carried out and they show that the majority of... [to full text]

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Thesis (M.L.S.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 3, 2008). Directed by Gavin Douglas; submitted to the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87).

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed February 29, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-156)

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 15, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-168). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.