Abstract
This chapter deals with teenagers’ everyday literacy practices related to global forms of popular culture. In particular, making use of the concept of “transmedia intertextuality”, in the first part of this chapter I show how adolescents’ activities centre around an interest of theirs which they purposefully follow using a range of media, and employing different texts and pop culture materials mostly produced in English. In other words, this chapter captures the connections initiated by participants in their everyday engagements with their popular culture interests. The second half of this chapter foregrounds the way young people’s engagement with global forms of pop culture and media functions for teenagers as their sideways entrance into English-speaking communities which they have difficulty accessing in reality.
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The absence of photographs of the teenagers themselves actively performing for the camera was, as Mizen (2005) notes, probably an inevitable consequence of the auto-driven method which places teenagers in the photographer’s role.
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Rothoni, A. (2019). The Interplay of Global Forms of Popular Culture and New Media in Teenagers’ Literacy Practices. In: Teenagers’ Everyday Literacy Practices in English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33592-2_5
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