Contemporary Chinese Urban Youth Culture: A Multiperspectival Cultural Studies Analysis of Three Culture Artifacts

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Abstract

This study explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through examining how media technologies such as the Internet empower contemporary Chinese urban youth. Using Douglas Kellner’s (1995) multiperspectival cultural studies, specifically cultural studies, critical theory, and critical media literacy, as both the theoretical and methodological framework, I explore the cultural identities of contemporary urban Chinese youth through closely reading three artifacts of Chinese Internet subcultures and indigenous and global influences on contemporary Chinese urban youth. My study provides a panoramic view of contemporary Chinese urban youth culture and creates new ways to explore its complexity from multiple perspectives. Seven intertwined meanings have emerged from my study.

Author

• Jing Sun, Georgia Southern University