Jeffrey Lane
jeffrey.lane@rutgers.edu
Jeffrey Lane’s book The Digital Street has been published by Oxford University Press. Based on five years of ethnographic observations, dozens of interviews, and analyses of social media content, the book illustrates a new street world where social media transforms how young people experience neighborhood violence and poverty. It is simply no longer possible to understand coming of age in the inner city without an appreciation of both the face-to-face and online relations that structure neighborhood life, Prof. Lane argues. The Digital Street is the first in-depth exploration of the ways digital social media is changing life in poor, minority communities.
