Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration
US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles
Seiten
2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5392-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5392-6 (ISBN)
This book considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young women use social media to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their daily lives as minors, females, and racial minorities.
Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration: US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. Detailing a year-long ethnography following a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse group of female, rural, teenaged adolescents living in the Midwest region of the United States, this book investigates how young women creatively call upon social media in everyday attempts to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their offline lives as minors, females, and ethnic and racial minorities. In tracing girls’ appreciation and use of social media to roots anchored well outside of the individual, this book finds American girls’ relationships with social media to be far more culturally nuanced than adults typically imagine. There are material reasons for US teens’ social media use explained by how we do girlhood, adolescence, family, class, race, and technology. And, as this book argues, an unpacking of these areas is essential to understanding adolescent girls’ social media use.
Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration: US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. Detailing a year-long ethnography following a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse group of female, rural, teenaged adolescents living in the Midwest region of the United States, this book investigates how young women creatively call upon social media in everyday attempts to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their offline lives as minors, females, and ethnic and racial minorities. In tracing girls’ appreciation and use of social media to roots anchored well outside of the individual, this book finds American girls’ relationships with social media to be far more culturally nuanced than adults typically imagine. There are material reasons for US teens’ social media use explained by how we do girlhood, adolescence, family, class, race, and technology. And, as this book argues, an unpacking of these areas is essential to understanding adolescent girls’ social media use.
Aimee Rickman is assistant professor of child and family sciences at California State University, Fresno.
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: “I Guess I Can Be Myself There, Instead”
Chapter Two: “It Just Felt Like There Was a Lot More Space Around Here Before:” Crowded Isolation
Chapter Three: “This Is About as Good As It Gets”: Negotiating Involvement
Chapter Four: “I Don’t Want Them Knowing My Business. And They Don't Have To”: Negotiating Performances of (In)Visibility
Chapter Five: “I Think It’s Pretty Private”: Negotiating Safety, Risk, and Recklessness
Chapter Six: Adolescent Marginality and Media Migration
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Communicating Gender |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-5392-3 / 1498553923 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-5392-6 / 9781498553926 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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