Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies

Fully revised and updated, this volume examines the diverse ways in which young people, especially girls, across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds are incorporating digital technology into their everyday lives. Contributors find new significance in mobile and social media, gaming culture, and trends in youth internet use by reading them alongside notions of gender and identity, technological access, and social and parental controls. Challenging many currently-hel...