Global Youth Culture

Global Youth Culture

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lobal youth culture is the trans disciplinary category by which theorists and policy analysis attempt to understand the emergence of the complex forms of hybrid culture and identity that occur amongst youth through media like film, television, music, internet and etc. Youth defined as post-adolescent and pre-adult groups between 15 until 24 years old are perceived as a primary engine for the growth of global media culture. Global youth are seen as actively responding to and identifying with modernized and cosmopolitan western culture. Global youth cannot separate from a rigorous critique of political economy. Youth have utilized new media to mobilize and coordinate global political expressions like the anti-corporate globalization movement that voices youth’s desire for a progressive world based upon alternative globalization. Internet provide youth the world over with instant access to a wide diversity of cultural styles and artifacts. While television and radio remain the most powerful and pervasive media in the lives of most global youth.