Approach
Digital ethnography with three teenage gamers, drawing on interviews, screenshots and video analysis through New Literacy Studies.
Main ideas
- The cases show different degrees of participation and specialisation on YouTube.
- Choices of usernames, images and language reveal varying linguistic and multimodal awareness across Catalan, Spanish and English.
Three situated qualitative cases of teenage gamers.
How this work can be used
Use the chapter in research on youth digital identities and multilingual media practices, or to inform reflection on self-presentation and audience in student video projects.
Cite this chapter
Vazquez-Calvo, B., Elf, N., & Gewerc, A. (2020). Catalan teenagers’ identity, literacy and language practices on YouTube. In M. R. Freiermuth & N. Zarrinabadi (Eds.), Technology and the Psychology of Second Language Learners and Users (pp. 251–278). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34212-8_10
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