American Girls - Nancy Jo Sales
social media and the secret lives of teenagers
KORTE INHOUD
-Seventy-three percent of kids have smartphones. Teenagers spend up to eleven hours a day plugged into an electronic device.
-Kids begin seeing online porn as young as age six, and the majority of boys and girls have wtached it before they turn eighteen.
-Ninety-two percent of American children have an online presence before the age of two.
-Seven percent of Tinder's estimated 50 million users are between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.
This book explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills.
What is it to be a girl growing up in America today, in a world inundated with nude and pornographic images of women and girls? How dies it affect a girl's conception of her body, her self, her self-worth? Her relationship to boys and other girls? What is it like to be a girl coming of age at a time when intimacy begins, and sometimes ends, on a screen?
Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. You Tube. Kik. Ask.fm.
T...
-Kids begin seeing online porn as young as age six, and the majority of boys and girls have wtached it before they turn eighteen.
-Ninety-two percent of American children have an online presence before the age of two.
-Seven percent of Tinder's estimated 50 million users are between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.
This book explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills.
What is it to be a girl growing up in America today, in a world inundated with nude and pornographic images of women and girls? How dies it affect a girl's conception of her body, her self, her self-worth? Her relationship to boys and other girls? What is it like to be a girl coming of age at a time when intimacy begins, and sometimes ends, on a screen?
Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. You Tube. Kik. Ask.fm.
T...
