Abstract
Looking at youth from a globalisation perspective is relatively new for German-language educational science. In recent years, there have been increasing calls to discuss questions of education, socialisation and upbringing from a globalisation perspective (cf. e.g. As- brand 2002; Hornstein 2001; Nestvogel 2000; Scheunpflug 2003). However, it must still be noted that educational science understands youth primarily as a national category. In this way, global forms of expression of youth cultures hardly come into view, if at all. The media - as I will argue in the following pages - today contribute in a central way to the emergence of globalised media scenes of young people in an increasingly global culture. These can be important forms of expression of how the search for meaning and identity is managed in youth-specific ways under the conditions of complex globalisation processes. In these globalised media scenes, young people use media to negotiate global (media) culture in different ways and for different purposes in their own lifeworld.
