Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: This project focuses on understanding the social identity of homeless youth and the influence that group categorization has on the communication strategies. Specifically, how does a marginalized group’s identity influence its communication with dominant society? Finding convergences between two unseeingly divergent theories, social identity and co-cultural theory, helps create understanding about how their identity is constructed as well as the ways in which the youth’s communication renders their identity visible or perpetuates its invisibility.