| Description |
xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Perspectives on Young People and Technologies / Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon -- 1. Playspaces, Childhood, and Videogames / Shanly Dixon and Sandra Weber -- 2. "I'm the One Who Makes the Lego Racers Go": Studying Virtual and Actual Play / Seth Giddings -- 3. Technology in the Everyday Lives of "Tweens" / Sandra Weber and Julia Weber -- 4. The Girls' Room: Negotiating Schoolyard Friendships Online / Kelly Boudreau -- 5. "I Think We Must be Normal ... There are Too Many of Us for This to be Abnormal!!!": Girls Creating Identity and Forming Community in Pro-Ana/Mia Websites / Michele Polak -- 6. Private Writing in Public Spaces: Girls' Blogs and Shifting Boundaries / Brandi Bell -- 7. Consuming Fashion and Producing Meaning through Online Paper Dolls / Rebekah Willett -- 8. Producing Gender in Digital Interactions: What Young People Set Out to Achieve through Computer Game Design / Caroline Pelletier -- 9. Contexts, Pleasures, and Preferences: Girls Playing Computer Games / Diane Carr -- 10. Adolescent Girls' Expression on Web Home Pages: Spirited, Somber, and Self-Conscious Sites / Susannah R. Stern -- 11. Playing At and With Popular Teen Culture on "Girl" Websites: The Case of Alice / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- 12. Girl Culture and Digital Technology in the Age of AIDS / Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- 13. New Girl (and New Boy) at the Internet Cafe: Digital Divides/Digital Futures / Claudia Mitchell and Grace Sokoya -- 14. Contested Spaces: Protecting or Inhibiting Girls Online? / Leslie Regan Shade -- 15. Reviewing Young Peoples' Engagement with Technology / Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Internet and children.
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Internet and teenagers.
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Internet and women.
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| Author |
Dixon, Shanly, 1965-
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| ISBN |
140397814X |
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9781403978141 (hbk.) |
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