Absent Audiences
Youth Identity Formation in Preparations for Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12762202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Thompson (0000-0003-3832-4855, Rowan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-40 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language Identity & Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7701 • E-ISSN: 1534-8458 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15348458.2011.539966 |
| OpenAlex | W2029168766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article explores the use of audiences in preparation for public presentation by an urban youth organization in Camden, New Jersey (U.S.). Camden is an impoverished city with few opportunities for youth. The organization, a hybrid of youth development, technology, business, and college preparation, prepared youth for good jobs or college. Public presentations were a main participation structure. In preparing for them, youth used the imagined responses of audiences as a way of developing their work. They also used the real responses of previous audiences as they considered how best to represent their work and themselves. Absent audiences were deeply connected to their thought processes for their presentations in radio shows, to Web design clients, and to audiences for digital storytelling festivals. These audiences also influenced the ways in which the youth constructed their own identities, moving from the categories of victim or urban youth to expert. Keywords: urban youthparticipationcommunities of practicemultiliteracies
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Brand identity · Business · Identity (music · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Presentation (obstetrics · Public relations · Sociology · Storytelling · Work (physics · Youth engagement · Youth studies · Youth work · Digital Games and Media · Digital Storytelling and Education · Engineering · Gender Studies · Literacy, Media, and Education
Conducting interaction
Working through Language
Linguistic Anthropology
Identity and Language Learning
Literacy in the New Media Age
Apprenticeship in Thinking
Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality
The audience as co-author
Linguistic Anthropology
Bourdieu
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Verbal art as performance
Talk at work
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
The Forms of Capital
Gender Trouble
Crafting an Agentive Self
At Last
Participation, stance and affect in the organization of activities
A comparison of youth‐driven and adult‐driven youth programs
Mapping participant deictics
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
The Constitution of Expert-Novice in Scientific Discourse
Chapter 3
Audience diversity, participation and interpretation
Qualitative Data Analysis
Activity types and language
The economics of linguistic exchanges
Situated Learning
Professional Vision
Verbal Art as Performance1
Youth Programs as Alternative Spaces to be
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |