Adolescence, girlhood, and media migration : US teens' use of social media to negotiate offline struggles / Aimee Rickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rickman, Aimee, author.

Series:

Communicating gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Conduct of life.

Teenage girls.

Interpersonal relations in adolescence.

Social media--Psychological aspects.

Social media.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 175 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

"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."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

"I guess I can be myself there, instead"

"It just felt like there was a lot more space around here before" : crowded isolation

"This is about as good as it gets" : negotiating involvement

"I don't want them knowing my business. And they don't have to" : negotiating performances of (in)visibility

"I think it's pretty private" : negotiating safety, risk, and recklessness

Adolescent marginality and media migration

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rickman, Aimee. Adolescence, girlhood, and media migration.

ISBN:

9781498553926

1498553923

OCLC:

1022075824