Australian youth: exploring ethnicity in cyberspace

澳大利亚青年：探索网络空间的民族性。澳大利亚的年轻人正在迈向成年，这个社会既是种族多元化的，也是越来越依赖信息技术的社会。这个项目将调查我们社会的这些特征对年轻人来说是如何相互交织的，因为他们使用计算机媒介的交流来寻找与其种族背景相关的信息，并与来自其种族群体的其他人互动。该项目的中心目标是确定这项活动如何影响澳大利亚的种族认同建设进程和年轻澳大利亚人的“社区意识”。研究结果还将使人们更广泛地了解年轻人使用信息技术的情况。

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.