Australian youth: exploring ethnicity in cyberspace

澳大利亚青年：探索网络空间中的种族问题。澳大利亚的青年正在一个种族多样化和日益依赖信息技术的社会中走向成年。本项目将调查我们社会的这些特征如何与年轻人相交，因为他们使用计算机媒介通信来寻求与其族裔背景相关的信息，并与来自其族裔群体的其他人互动。该项目的中心目标是确定这一活动如何影响族裔认同的建设进程和澳大利亚青年的“社区”意识。研究结果亦有助加深对青少年使用资讯科技的认识。

Australian youth: exploring ethnicity in cyberspace. Australia's youth are moving towards adulthood in a society that is both ethnically diverse and increasingly reliant on information technologies. This project will investigate how these characteristics of our society are intersecting for young people, as they use computer-mediated communication to seek information relevant to their ethnic backgrounds and interact with others from their ethnic groups. The central aim of the project is to establish how this activity is impacting on the process of ethnic identity construction and young Australians' sense of 'community'. The research findings will also provide a broader understanding of young people's use of information technologies.