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Kate Russell Designing Interdisciplinary Research Professor Coventry Draft Literature Review December 15, 2006 An in-depth exploration into the modern experience of adolescence amidst all of the technological innovation that is currently available today requires an exploration also into the related fields of cultural theory, sociology and interpersonal interaction, community building, media studies, and history, to enable some sort of cultural contextualization to result. This project, categories, research, and arguments will be evaluated primarily from a popular culture point of view. My overall interest in this research and this project is to explore how adolescents within American society are responding to the cultural shifts and changing social environment that is brought about by the new forms of communication and interaction enabled by technological innovation, and how this correspondingly affects the way American teens are growing up and how this ultimately influences the American family and larger social framework as a result. The literature surrounding this larger topic, as well as the smaller ones within it, are best divided into three categories following the initial establishment of the theoretical framework which my work will utilize. These three categories include: a historical and theoretical approach to technological advancement, social disconnection, and shifts in previously established social codes of conduct among individuals within American society; Youth media culture and the dynamics of the American family in today’s world as well as the role of technological innovation and online communication modes within this and the effects they can have; and, thirdly, literature that involves generational studies focusing on the American teen, adolescent social interaction trends and studies, and the role of technology and youth sociology in political engagement (to be in the form of a small case-study) to attempt to communicate that technological innov