In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives. They explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230607019

Topic

Scienze sociali

Subtopic

Sociologia

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction: Perspectives on Young People and Technologies
One: Playspaces, Childhood, and Video games
Two: "I'm the One Who Makes the Lego Racers Go": Studying Virtual and Actual Play
Three: Girls' Adoption of New Technologies
Four: The Girls' Room: Negotiating Schoolyard Friendships Online
Five: "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
Six: Private Writing in Public Spaces: Girls' Blogs and Shifting Boundaries
Seven: Consuming Fashion and Producing Meaning through Online Paper Dolls
Eight: Producing Gender in Digital Interactions: What Young People Set Out to Achieve through Computer Game Design
Nine: Contexts, Pleasures, and Preferences: Girls Playing Computer Games
Ten: Adolescent Girls' Expression on Web Home Pages: Spirited, Somber, and Self-Conscious Sites
Eleven: Playing At and With Popular Teen Culture on "Girl" Websites: The Case of Alice
Twelve: Girl Culture and Digital Technology in the Age of AIDS
Thirteen: New Girl (and New Boy) at the Internet Café: Digital Divides/Digital Futures
Fourteen: Contested Spaces: Protecting or Inhibiting Girls Online?
Fifteen: Reviewing Young Peoples' Engagement with Technology
Index