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American girls : social media and the secret lives of teenagers Cover Image Book Book

American girls : social media and the secret lives of teenagers

Sales, Nancy Jo (author.).

Summary: "Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence -- one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl's first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills." --book jacket

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  • ISBN: 9780385353922
  • ISBN: 0385353928
  • ISBN: 9780385353939
  • Physical Description: print
    404 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-388) and index.

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Subject: Internet and teenagers
Teenage girls -- United States
Social media

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.

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