As the National Board for Youth Affairs deals with young people’s living conditions, one of the report’s aims, is to show how availability of modern technology affects today’s youth. It features articles about how networking cultures dramatically have changed the way young people today socialize and develop identities. Adolescents and Networking Cultures also talks about what file sharing means to subcultures’ conditions of existence.

The report concludes that playing computer and console games are one of the few new leisure activities among adolescents in the past 25 years. Seven out of ten young people play computer or console games regularly and three out ten play at least once every week. The report also confirms that gaming is a fairly common activity among young people up to 25 years old and that more boys than girls play.

The report Adolescents and Networking Cultures (in Swedish) can be downloaded (http://ungdomsstyrelsen.se/art/0,2072,7153,00.html) or ordered from the website of the National Board for Youth Affairs.