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| Author: | Mattar, Y. |
| Title: | Virtual communities and hip-hop music consumers in Singapore: interplaying global, local and subcultural identities |
| Journal: | Leisure Studies
2003 : OCT, VOL. 22:4, p. 283-300 |
| Index terms: | Information technology Internet Leisure Music Virtual reality Singapore |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study offers an alternative perspective on leisure subcultures, with reference to the advent of the Internet as a new information and communication technology (ICT). The Internet is here shown to allow subcultural identities to be made flexible, where various local subcultural identities are able to fuse into a global subcultural identity, or retain their local flavours, as the situation permits. A case study of hip-hop music consumers in Singapore and their involvement in virtual communities on the Internet is used to show the fluidity in identity formation and maintenance brought about by new ICT. |
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