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OverviewAdolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration: US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. Detailing a year-long ethnography following a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse group of female, rural, teenaged adolescents living in the Midwest region of the United States, this book investigates how young women creatively call upon social media in everyday attempts to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their offline lives as minors, females, and ethnic and racial minorities. In tracing girls’ appreciation and use of social media to roots anchored well outside of the individual, this book finds American girls’ relationships with social media to be far more culturally nuanced than adults typically imagine. There are material reasons for US teens’ social media use explained by how we do girlhood, adolescence, family, class, race, and technology. And, as this book argues, an unpacking of these areas is essential to understanding adolescent girls’ social media use. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aimee RickmanPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781498553926ISBN 10: 1498553923 Pages: 186 Publication Date: 20 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter One: “I Guess I Can Be Myself There, Instead” Chapter Two: “It Just Felt Like There Was a Lot More Space Around Here Before:” Crowded Isolation Chapter Three: “This Is About as Good As It Gets”: Negotiating Involvement Chapter Four: “I Don’t Want Them Knowing My Business. And They Don't Have To”: Negotiating Performances of (In)Visibility Chapter Five: “I Think It’s Pretty Private”: Negotiating Safety, Risk, and Recklessness Chapter Six: Adolescent Marginality and Media Migration Bibliography Index About the AuthorReviewsAdolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration is an engaging read from beginning to end. It addresses the interplay between social media and identity in Midwest rural American teenage girls. Going beyond typical work in this area that focuses on safety, Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration addresses the prodigious impact of social media's hidden algorithmic elements on self-perception, identity, social justice, and ultimately power. -- Karrie G. Karahalios, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign In Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration: US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggle, Aimee Rickman provides much needed depth and insight into how young women in rural America are using social media to redress the marginality they face in their everyday lives as adolescents, as females, as rural, as economically precarious. Rickman captures the fraught and fanciful ways these young women attempt to reorder such marginality through social media. Rickman's richly contextualized understandings of these adolescents' complex struggles for respect, social power, and relevance reveal practices that alternatively remediate as well as reinscribe these adolescents in their marginality. For those interested in social media, youth, gendered social action, and rural America, this book will not disappoint. -- Mary P. Sheridan, University of Louisville Author InformationAimee Rickman is assistant professor of child and family sciences at California State University, Fresno. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |