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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.

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Description
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."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Mediated youth, 1555-1814 ; v. 2
Uniform Title
Mediated youth ; v. 2.
Subject
  • Teenage girls > United States > Psychology > Case studies
  • Instant messaging > Social aspects > United States > Case studies
  • Teenage girls > Social networks > United States > Case studies
  • Internet and teenagers > United States > Case studies
  • Internet and teenagers
  • Teenage girls > Psychology
  • Computerunterstützte Kommunikation
  • Soziales Netzwerk
  • Weibliche Jugend
  • Instant Messaging
  • Junge Frau
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144).
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Understanding the world of adolescent girls and instant messaging -- "how many peeps R on 4U?": IM as a space for identity articulation -- "i got to intercept that mail before the parental gets home": instant messaging as a private space -- "Lol- i'm gonna make out w/ so many ppl tomrw~": negotiating gender identity through IM -- Marketing to youth: the commodification of identity in the new media landscape -- Private space or cultural vacuum? Implications of instant messaging as a site of girls' gender identity negotiation -- Notes -- References.
ISBN
  • 9780820463254
  • 0820463256
LCCN
  • 2006037194
  • 9780820463254
  • 2523669
OCLC
  • ocm76141833
  • 76141833
  • SCSB-1435880
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library