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Afterword: a new digital Leisure Studies for Theoretical Times

It is a pleasure to write this Afterword to an excellent special issue on young people’s everyday lives and digital leisure cultures. I commend it to readers in the strongest possible terms. The special issue is not just for those interested in digital leisure and young people’s everyday lives, as there are implications in these important papers for Leisure Studies in general – for the ‘digital’ and ‘digital age’ in Leisure Studies. There are a number of high-class articles in this special issue pushing at the shifting barriers of the discipline of Leisure Studies and of youth studies within Leisure Studies. Empirically and theoretically, they are directly relevant to the debates in the discipline right now, and indeed beyond the discipline. Work in these articles on digital citizenship, online fitness, video games, health promotion, sporting celebrity and sexuality, their myriad links to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter and their refraction through the high theoretical maze of Foucault, Hardt and Negri, Zizek, Deleuze and others, shows the diversity, sophistication and the intellectual rigour of Leisure Studies as an academic discipline which has come of age. The dark side of digital leisure is also drawn attention to in work on abuse of young athletes via Twitter and the widespread discrimination evident on the basis of image, looks, sexuality, gender and race. The idea that digital leisure for young people is a bed of roses is rightly subjected to pulverising critique. The papers in this special issue also problematise digital methodologies.