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This article considers young people's identities and privacy on social network sites through reflection on the analogy of the teenage bedroom as a means to understand such spaces. The notion therein of intimate personal space may jar with the scope and complexity of social media and, particularly, with recent emphasis on the challenges to privacy posed by such environments. I suggest, however, that, through increased use of access controls and a range of informal strategies, young people's everyday digital communication may not be as out of control as is sometimes inferred. Recent adaptations of the bedroom analogy indicate that social network sites retain intimacy and that their individual-centred format continues to facilitate the exhibition and mapping of identities. Although an awkward fit, I suggest the bedroom may still help us think through how social network sites can function as vital personal home territories in the midst of multi-spatial patterns of sociability.

'Youth' music and style cultures, such as the punk, goth, metal and club scenes, are often regarded as opposed to the institution of the family and the values it symbolises. Yet significant numbers of the participants of such groups are now remaining actively involved into their thirties and beyond alongside the taking on of permanent cohabitation, marriage and parenthood. This article explores the increasing importance of family life for ageing members of 'youth' cultures in relation to the case study of the goth scene, a dark-themed grouping whose average age is rising. I emphasise the collective nature of the embrace of family among older goths and the implications of this for the values and environment of the group itself and the trajectories of individual members. Amongst other things, I explore whether the drift towards family and parenthood amongst goths might be understood as a collective assimilation into dominant adulthood.

AbstractFor decades, research on the subject of music and style subcultures has presented participation in such groups as a temporary manifestation of adolescence. More recently, sociologists have begun to examine the lives and identities of those who remain involved in so‐called 'youth' subcultures beyond their teens and early twenties. This article examines the ways such work has begun to illuminate the role of enduring subcultural identities as part of the developing lives of older participants. Such work, I suggest, rejects simplistic understandings of older participation as a refusal to grow up in favour of a detailed focus on the relationships between continuing participation and other aspects of developing adult life, including career, family and the ageing body. Identifying core themes and debates while identifying areas for further work, I argue that this developing field of research addresses one of the primary criticisms of youth cultural research in the past, which is that such research has tended to examine leisure related affiliations in a fixed period of time and in isolation from the rest of participants' lives.

Suggestions that the internet has facilitated existing trends towards the increasing disconnection of individuals from substantive communities have been balanced by a variety of empirical case studies demonstrating significant communal features on some online discussion forums. While recognizing the role of discussion forums in facilitating community, this article seeks to shift the focus of debate towards the rapidly increasing use of online journal style web logs (`blogs') as a form of social interaction. Ostensibly centred upon the individual rather than the group, yet increasingly interactive and socially oriented, interactive online journals appear particularly consistent with the notion of individualistic rather than group-centred patterns of sociability. The article explores this possibility in relation to case study research focused on the recent take-up of online journals by a group of individuals who previously participated in discussion forums associated with a music and fashion subculture known as the `goth' scene.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- New Fathers and Mental Health Struggles -- The Role of Digital Communication -- Methodology -- Chapter Outline -- References -- Chapter 2: Repertoires of Illegitimacy -- Masculinities and Male Mental Health Communication -- Fathers' Positionality in the Perinatal Period -- Repertoires of Illegitimacy -- Digital Spaces and Agentic Possibilities in Mediated Communication -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Paternal Struggles and Difficulties Seeking Support -- Paternal Struggles and Contributing Circumstances -- Preparation, Support and Illegitimacy -- Paternal Scripts of Stoicism and Challenges Seeking Help -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Mediated Coping: A Spectrum of Digital Engagement -- Modes of Engagement -- Disconnection -- Distraction -- Learning and Listening -- Reaching Out -- Supporting Others -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Affective Coding: Masked and Hidden Approaches to Self-Disclosure Online -- Conceptualising Affective Coding -- Affective Coding in Practice -- Audiences and Decoding -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Mediated Relationships, Ties and Intimacies -- Tapestries of Intimacy -- Mental Health Struggles, Existing Relationships and Digital Communication -- Disclosure and the Carving Out of New Mediated Ties -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Findings -- Recommendations for Policy and Practice -- In Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This article introduces the idea of 'affective coding' as a form of affectively loaded, digital social steganography – a form of hiding messages – as it presents findings from interviews with new fathers struggling to cope with and disclose mental illnesses, against the context of cultures of silencing. While previous expositions of online social steganography have considered its role in privacy management or its employment in concealing identities, we conceptualise affective coding as an agentic and discursive-material digital practice of attempted revelation, occupying a liminal space between silence and more explicit attempts to reach out, disclose and seek support. Our findings show men undertaking a range of seemingly minor online acts, each demonstrating subtle strategies of managing self-disclosure and social media architecture, and each encoded with a substantial amount of affective investment. We discuss motivations, strategies and outcomes of affective coding, before discussing its significance for self-disclosure in platform societies.

Drawing on detailed qualitative research, this timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. The authors examine what prompts these arrangements, how fathers adjust to their caregiving roles over time, and what challenges they face along the way. The book asks what would encourage more fathers to become primary or equal caregivers, and how we can make things easier for those who do. Offering new academic insight and practical recommendations, this will be key reading for those interested in parenting, families and gender, including researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students.

Ageing and Youth Cultures, Andy Bennett, Griffith University and Paul Hodkinson, University of Surrey, UKPart One: Ageing, Image and Identity' More than the Xs on my Hands': Older Straight Edgers and The Meaning of Style, Ross Haenfler, University of Mississippi, USA Performances of Post-Youth Sexual Identities in Queer Scenes, Jodie Taylor, Griffith University, Australia Ageing Rave Women's Post-Scene Narratives, Julie Gregory, Queen's University, Canada Part Two: Constraints of the Ageing Body'Each One Teach One': B-Boying and Ageing, Mary Fogarty, York University Toronto, Canada Slamdancing, Ageing and Belonging, William Tsitos, University of Arizona, USA Rock Fans' Experiences of the Ageing Body: Becoming More Civilized, Lucy Gibson, University of Manchester, UK Part Three: Resources and Responsibilities Dance Parties, Lifestyle and Strategies for Ageing, Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia Punk, Ageing and the Expectations of Adult Life, Joanna Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Alternative Women Adjusting to Ageing: How to Stay a Freak at Fifty, Samantha Holland, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKPart Four: Ageing Community The Collective Ageing of a Goth Festival, Paul Hodkinson, University of Surrey, UK Strong Riot Women and the Continuity of Feminist Subcultural Participation, Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago, USA and Danielle Giffort, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Parenthood and the Transfer of Subcultural Capital in the Northern Soul Scene, Nicola Smith, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK Bibliography Index

This article explores the daytime social interactions of fathers in heterosexual households who have assumed primary or equal responsibility for the care of their young children. It outlines how, for most such fathers in our sample, contact with other parents during their day-to-day care was minimal. Many initially rationalised their isolation as a personal preference rooted in their own 'introverted' nature, but such individualised narratives underplayed how various systemic factors worked against their integration into parent networks. While these may include, we suggest, less intense pressures than mothers to engage with such groups in the first place, our primary findings concern barriers they faced, including: feeling 'out-of-place' in many daytime public spaces; a specific fear of being judged because of their gender; and the difficulty of meeting other fathers with responsibility for day-to-day care. The operation of these factors, we argue, provides evidence of the enduring nature of gender differences with respect to early years parenting and in particular, of the gendering of daytime public parenting spaces – something that may represent a barrier to the extent and longevity of fathers' caregiving roles.

This article considers the increasing importance of personal, individualized spaces in the lives and identities of young people through a comparative examination of the contemporary use of the physical space of the bedroom and the 'virtual' territory of the online journal. Particularly popular among those in their teens and early twenties, online journals constitute an interactive form of web log whose content tends to be dominated by reflections upon the everyday experiences, thought and emotions of their individual owner. We propose here that such online journals often take on for their users the symbolic and practical properties of individually owned and controlled space — something we illustrate through a comparison with young people's uses of the primary, individual-centred, physical space in their lives — the bedroom. This discussion is informed by research by each of the authors, on young people's bedrooms and on the use of online journals respectively. The article identifies and explores understandings and functions of these two spaces for young people, identifying a number of apparent similarities in their use. Through doing so, we illustrate the potential value of the bedroom as a prism through which to understand online journal use at the same time as helping to illuminate the general significance of personal space to the lives and identities of contemporary young people.