It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300166311 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. 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. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to
Emily Saleme said Very good read coming from a millennial and a college student. Very good read coming from a millennial and a college student, I learned a lot and feel as though this is a must read for any Digital Native of today.. M. Simon said It sure is complicated: some glaring problems with boyd's work. It sure is complicated.Spoiler Alert: As a psychotherapist, school counselor and educator, having spent much of my adult life working with teens and families, I have some serious problems with "It's Complicated." The main problems: This book was written by a researcher who neither takes a political stand on an inherently political issue nor does she make clear her biases in analysis of the "data" under consideration. In the end, the book suffers from a kind of blindness about what's right in front of her--that the impact and bi-directional effects of social media in the lives of our teens may not . "Important book by one of today's best scholars of digital culture" according to Henry G. Jenkins. For anyone who has been following research around youth and social networks over the past decade, this book has long been awaited. boyd has been and remains one of the most important cultural scholars of her generation, someone who is deeply grounded in the everyday practices around new media, someone who herself speaks as a member of the first wave of the so-called "digital natives" (a concept she deftly critiques and dissects throughout this book), someone who has been actively involved in public policy debates, who has developed a deep and intimate understanding of the lives that young people a
"An exhaustively researched study of how teens use technology . and a manifesto on how parents as individuals and society as a whole let young people down when they insist on protection and paternalism over media literacy and critical thinking. Even readers who are not parents, or teens, may well find this one of the most interesting books of the year."—Amy Benfer, Los Angeles Times