The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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Köp båda 2 för 192 krdanah boyd . . . is one of my favorite people to talk with about teenagers and technology. Thats not because I agree with her all the time. . . . But danah is the best kind of sparring partner because she always tells me something I didnt know along the way. That holds true with her new book, which offers interviews with teenagers in communities across the country. By filtering them through her distinct danah lens, she gleans valuable insights.Emily Bazelon, Slate boyds new book is layered and smart. . . . Its Complicated will update your mind.Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review There is something marvellously sensible about Boyds resolutely academic style. . . . boyds anatomy of teenage life is penetrating.Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph The key point is that social behaviour is adaptive, and people in power (i.e., parents) rarely understand the coping strategies being used by others. When adults start worrying about our childrens use of the internet, we should also ask what we can learn from our childrenand then look in the mirror at our own behaviour too. And have the courage to give kids more freedom physically to roam in the real worldalongside their travels in cyberspace.Gillian Tett, Financial Times The book took a decade to complete, and cites sociologists including Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman, but its the voices of the 166 teenagers boyd interviewed across America that make it a truly enlightening read.Jane Mulkerrins, Sunday Telegraph Based on a decade of research and interviews with adolescents from the suburbs to the inner city, Its Complicated is a persuasive anti-alarmist polemic that should help ease parents concerns about all sorts of Internet bogeymen.Randye Hoder, TIME Health & Family Its Complicated is both a report from the front lines and a larger social analysis. . . . It probes much deeper than just the latest fads in Twitter gossip or Snapchat goofiness. . . . On one level it is designed to counter the paranoia and anxiety that many parents still feel about their childrens engagement in social media. . . . But on another level it is a poignant critique of contemporary civilization. . . . The briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnt.Andrew Leonard, Salon Its Complicated, a new book about teenagers and digital technology by the media scholar danah boyd, places todays smartphones, iPads and laptops in the context of this perennial power struggle between adolescents and parents. In doing so, it adds much to our understanding of a young generation of hyper-connected, hybrid consumer-producersa cohort whose behaviour often unites parents, educators and investors in collective bewilderment.Gautam Malkani, Financial Times Students, parents, and educators will find this a comprehensive study of how technology impacts teens lives and how adults can help balance rather than vilify its inevitable use.Publishers Weekly There are . . . a lot of interesting observations here: that most teenagers arent digital natives as we like to believe.Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer Its Complicated champion[s] a rich, complex idea of what youth is about, and view[s] with horror the way adult discussions so often reduce the young to mute metrics.Simon Ings, New Scientist boyds slim academic study makes a compelling case that todays teenagers are more adept at navigating [the] dilemmas of the social media age than we old crusties aged 20 and over.Helen Lewis, New Statesman In Its Complicated, [boyds] detailed new anthropological inquiry into the internet habits of American teenagers, she does much to dispel many of the alarmist myths that surround young people and social media. Boyd has spent over a decade interviewing teens about their use of social media, and in the process has deve
danah boyd is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and Fellow at Harvard Universitys Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She lives in New York City.