Worried about the wrong things : youth, risk, and opportunity in the digital world / Jacqueline Ryan Vickery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan, author.

Series:

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society--United States.

Information society.

Internet and teenagers.

Digital media--Social aspects.

United States.

Digital media--Social aspects--United States.

Digital media.

Information technology--Social aspects--United States.

Information technology.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Internet and teenagers--United States.

Internet--Safety measures.

Internet.

Internet--Security measures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online experiences besides porn, predators, and peers. We need to turn our attention to inequitable opportunities for participation in a digital culture. Technical and material obstacles prevent low-income and other marginalized young people from the positive, community-building, and creative experiences that are possible online. Vickery explains that cautionary tales about online risk have shaped the way we think about technology and youth. She analyzes the discourses of risk in popular culture, journalism, and policy, and finds that harm-driven expectations, based on a privileged perception of risk, enact control over technology. Opportunity-driven expectations, on the other hand, based on evidence and lived experience, produce discourses that acknowledge the practices and agency of young people rather than seeing them as passive victims who need to be protected. Vickery first addresses how the discourses of risk regulate and control technology, then turns to the online practices of youth at a low-income, minority-majority Texas high school. Finally, she shows that opportunity-driven expectations can guide young people's online experiences in ways that balance protection and agency.

Contents:

I Risk

1 Historical Fears: Teens, Technology, and Anxiety 29

2 Policies of Panic: Porn, Predators, and Peers 45

3 Access Denied: Information, Knowledge, and Literacy 83

4 Negotiating Control: Distractions, Stress, and Boredom 109

II Experiences

5 Networked Sharing: Participation, Copyright, and Values 147

6 Visible Privacy: Norms, Preferences, and Strategies 183

7 (Dis)Connected Pathways: Expectations, Goals, and Opportunities 215.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262339339

0262339331

9780262339346

026233934X

OCLC:

1000300063

Publisher Number:

40027275925

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.