Mediated Boyhoods: Boys Teens and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture brings together work
from various disciplines that explores the relationships among the everyday lives of boys and
such media platforms as television films games sports music urban and suburban culture
fashion young adult novels Facebook MySpace and YouTube. Offering a comprehensive overview
of boyhood studies chapters consider questions about the current state of boyhood as it is
represented in the popular media the ways that boys are influenced by and work to influence
popular culture the ways that popular texts often reflect adult expectations anxieties and
prejudices about boys and boyhood and the ways that boys teens and young men are often able
to reflect upon and to act sometimes unpredictably to resist subvert or re-imagine and
re-create popular culture and media. The volume serves as a companion to Mediated Girlhoods:
New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture edited by Mary Celeste Kearney.
