Instant Identity

Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging

Shayla Thiel Stern (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2007
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6325-4 (ISBN)

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Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging explains how girls use instant messaging – a primary mode of new media communication for their generation – in order to flirt, bond, fight, and generally relate to peers in ways that both transcend and play into their culture’s dominant gender norms. Examining IM conversations and interviews with the girls, Shayla Thiel Stern demonstrates exactly how girls use IM to construct identity and negotiate sexuality, as they constantly move between childhood and adulthood in their language and actions online. This book is among the first of its kind to truly explore the millennial generation’s prevalent use of instant messaging and its implications for the future.

«This accessibly written book gives readers direct insights into how instant messaging has become a vital part of American adolescent girls’ everyday lives. Shayla Thiel Stern’s method of inviting teenage girls to give her copies of their IM conversations breaks new ground for the study of digital media among teens. Her analysis of these conversations in light of feminist theory and cultural studies gives us a unique and sympathetic vantage point from which to consider [how] profanity, gossip, sexuality, friendship, parental relationships, and the negotiation of marketing messages continue to play important roles in the construction of teenage lives today.» (Lynn Schofield Clark, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, University of Denver; Author, ‘From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural’)

Reihe/Serie	Mediated Youth ; 2
Reihe/Serie	Mediated Youth ; 2
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	230 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-6325-6 / 0820463256
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-6325-4 / 9780820463254
Zustand	Neuware