Read this introduction to David Buckingham's Youth, Identity & Digital Media (2005) - You can skip the foreword and start on Page 5 if you like.
Read the first few pages and use Buckingham's summary to answer the following questions.
Introducing Identity
1) What or who does Buckingham say identity "implies a relationship with".
2) According to Buckingham Identity is also "about identification with others whom we assume are..."
3) Why is Identity becoming more prominent (more important and visible) according to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman?
4) Also according to Bauman, "Identity is almost infinitely..." what?
Identity Formation: The Psychology of Adolescence
5) How does G. Stanley Hall define the period of Adolescence as?
6) How does Erikson see Adolescence?
7) Also according to Erikson, what needs to happen for a young person "to arrive at an integrated, coherent sense of their identity"
8) How does Susannah Stern (from the same book) suggest that the internet and online activities can help this process?
Youth Culture and the Sociology of Youth
9) According to Buckingham when was the category of the Teenager invented?
10) What other categories does he state that "crucially blur the distinctions between children, youth and adults" ?
