It's complicated : the social lives of networked teens
- Responsibility
- danah boyd.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Copyright notice
- ©2014
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages)
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- boyd, danah, 1977- author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266) and index.
- Contents
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- Identity : why do teens seem strange online?
- Privacy : why do youth share so publicly?
- Addiction : what makes teens obsessed with social media?
- Danger : are sexual predators lurking everywhere?
- Bullying : is social media amplifying meanness and cruelty?
- Inequality : can social media resolve social divisions?
- Literacy : are today's youth digital natives?
- Searching for a public of their own
- Appendix: Teen demographics.
- Summary
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An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd's conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subject
- Internet and teenagers.
- Online social networks.
- Teenagers > Social life and customs > 21st century.
- Information technology > Social aspects.
- COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
- COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
- COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
- COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
- COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
- COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
- COMPUTERS > Reference.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
- Information technology > Social aspects.
- Internet and teenagers.
- Online social networks.
- Teenagers > Social life and customs.
- Jugend
- Medienkonsum
- Soziale Software
- Internet > sociala medier.
- Tonåringar > internet > sociala medier > beteende.
- Ungdomar och Internet.
- Computers and IT.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- Note
- Made available by permission of the author under Creative Commons licensing (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
- ISBN
- 9780300166439 (electronic bk.)
- 0300166435 (electronic bk.)
- 9780300166316 (clothbound ; alk. paper)
- 0300166311 (clothbound ; alk. paper)
- 9780300199000 (pbk.)
- 0300199007 (pbk.)
