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The rapid process of globalization has led to an increase in transnational cultural practices among young people who are ‘using global resources to deal with local conditions’ (Wise, 2008, p. 63). In particular, alternative popular cultural resources made available through transnational digital technologies allow young people to negotiate the symbolic and geographic boundaries of the nation state. In this regard, youth cultural studies need to acknowledge the emerging ‘youthscape’ (Maira and Soep, 2004), in which imagined places and people are integrated into young people’s lives. The evolving global youthscape, however, does not necessarily promise young people enhanced freedom and mobility; instead, it often involves particular power struggles in which young people’s lives are constrained by the intersection of global, national and local forces.
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Yoon, K. (2014). Looking East: Young Koreans Consuming Japanese Media in the Intra-Asian Youthscape. In: Buckingham, D., Bragg, S., Kehily, M.J. (eds) Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008152_8
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