Growing up online : young people and digital technologies /

Main Author: Weber, Sandra
Other Authors: Dixon, Shanly,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Playspaces, childhood, and videogames / Shanly Dixon and Sandra Weber
  • "I'm the one who makes the Lego racers go" : studying virtual and actual play / Seth Giddings
  • Technology in the everyday lives of "tweens" / Sandra Weber, with Julia Weber
  • The girls' room : negotiating schoolyard friendships online / Kelly Boudreau
  • "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
  • Private writing in public spaces : girls' blogs and shifting boundaries / Brandi Bell
  • Consuming fashion and producing meaning through online paper dolls / Rebekah Willett
  • Producing gender in digital interactions : what young people set out to achieve through computer game design / Caroline Pelletier
  • Contexts, pleasures, and preferences : girls playing computer games / Diane Carr
  • Adolescent girls' expression on web home pages : spirited, somber, and self-conscious sites / Susannah R. Stern
  • Playing at and with popular teen culture on "girl" websites : the case of Alice / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
  • Girl culture and digital technology in the age of AIDS / Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
  • New girl (and new boy) at the internet café : digital divides/digital futures / Claudia Mitchell and Grace Sokoya
  • Contested spaces : protecting or inhibiting girls online / Leslie Regan Shade
  • Reviewing young people's engagement with technology / Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon.