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Instant identity : adolescent girls and the world of instant messaging

Title: Instant identity : adolescent girls and the world of instant messaging / Shayla Thiel Stern.
Author: Stern, Shayla Thiel.
Publication: New York : Peter Lang, [2007], ©2007.

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144 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging explains how girls use instant messaging - a primary mode of new media communication for their generation - in order to flirt, bond, fight, and generally relate to peers in ways that both transcend and play into their culture's dominant gender norms. Examining IM conversations and interviews with the girls, Shayla Thiel Stern demonstrates exactly how girls use IM to construct identity and negotiate sexuality, as they constantly move between childhood and adulthood in their language and actions online. This book is among the first of its kind to explore the millennial generation's prevalent use of instant messaging and its implications for the future."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Mediated youth, 1555-1814 ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Mediated youth ; v. 2.

Subjects

Teenage girls > United States > Psychology > Case studies
Teenage girls > Social networks > United States > Case studies
Instant messaging > Social aspects > United States > Case studies
Internet and teenagers > United States > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144).

Contents

Ch. 1. Understanding the world of adolescent girls and instant messaging -- Ch. 2. "How many peeps R on 4U?" : IM as a space for identity articulation -- Ch. 3. "I got to intercept that mail before the parental gets home" : instant messaging as a private space -- Ch. 4. "Lol - i'm gonna make out w/ so many ppl tomrw"̃ : negotiating gender identity through IM -- Ch. 5. Marketing to youth : the commodification of identity in the new media landscape -- Ch. 6. Private space or cultural vacuum? : implications of instant messaging as a site of girls' gender identity negotiation.

ISBN

9780820463254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820463256 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037194

OCLC

OCM76141833
SCSB-5325970

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries