Their intellectualĮngagement with my ideas and support of my endeavors is what made this process Me and shaped me with boundless patience and encouragement. Have had the great fortune of working with four brilliant women who have guided Mimi Ito, Cori Hayden, Jenna Burrell, and Anno Saxenian as "the goddesses." I When friends ask about my dissertation committee, I refer to Is the answer to your persistent question, "Are you done yet?" Finally, w00t! Would not be who I am today without my mother Kathryn. Insanity as proof that I am family their willingness to go for an adventureĪnd attend my graduation prompted me to work harder and faster. And to my grandparents who have embraced my I am especially appreciative of my brother Ryan's willingness to be thereįor me even when I was most crazy. I am tremendously thankful for all of my family and their It possible for me to keep going and, for that, I am eternally grateful to him. Number of candles did not equal my years since birth, he explained that he had Recent birthday, he surprised me with a party and a cake. Without complaint, he responded with chicken noodle soup and hugs. This process and bore the brunt of my exhaustion, confusion, and frustration. The love and support that I received from my partner Giladĭuring this process exceeded my wildest dreams. To express my gratitude for their willingness to put up with me during these I had the constant support andĮncouragement of family, friends, colleagues, and mentors. While writing a dissertation is one of the most isolatingĪctivities imaginable, I was never truly alone. I must seem so strange." –Ani DiFranco, Fire Door
With Teachers, Youth Pastors, and Other Trusted Adultsħ.1. Pressure to Participate: Signing Up andĥ.3. Managing Identity in Networked PublicsĬhapter 5: Friendship, Status, and Peer Worldsĥ.2. Controlling Access: Public or Private?Ĥ.7. Performing Falsehoods-Deception, Play,Ĥ.6. The Art of Profile Creation and ManagementĤ.5. Analyzing Relationships and TechnologyĬhapter 3: Social Network Sites and Social MediaĤ.3. The United States to Teens' Homes and IHOPĢ.4. Networked Publics to MySpace and Facebook
The Social Construction of Teenagersĭynamics Resulting from Networked Publics Reshape public life, but teens' engagement also reconfigures the technologyġ.2. Life, complicating some practices and reinforcing others. Strategies reveal how new forms of social media are incorporated into everyday Managing the complexities of and social awkwardness incurred by these sites. Learned to navigate social network sites, they developed potent strategies for In doing so, they reworked the technology for their purposes. Practices and teens were forced to contend with the resultant dynamics. While teenagers primarily leverage social network sites toĮngage in common practices, the properties of these sites configured their Four properties- persistence, searchability, replicability, and scalability-and three dynamics- invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, and the blurring of public and private-are examined and woven Practices as unmediated publics, but their structural differences often inflect
Networked publics support many of the same (2) the imagined community that emerges as a result of the intersection of My analysis centers on how social network sites can beĪre simultaneously (1) the space constructed through networked technologies and Their participation supported and complicated three practices- self-presentation, peer sociality, and negotiating adult society. Of American teens' engagement with social network sites and the ways in which This dissertation documents my 2.5-year ethnographic study While social network sites were predominantly used by teensĪs a peer-based social outlet, the unchartered nature of these sites generatedįear among adults. Practices-gossiping, flirting, joking around, sharing information, and Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday social May he rest in peace knowing that I finally finished.Īs social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged,Īmerican teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize I could not have asked for a better friend, This dissertation is dedicated to my belovedĪdvisor, Peter Lyman (1940–2007), for all of the support, guidance, and
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