It's Complicated : The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Paperback)

from asomers

This should be a must read for any teacher and administrator's working with tween and teens. It's not just for the computer teacher! It is critical to understand the social, emotional, and psychological implications of the use of technology for our students. It also underscores the importance of ...

from jen.e.moore

A solid ethnographic study of teens and their use of social media, designed for the adults who have power over those teens' lives, to give them a means of understanding what the heck is going on here. In short: teens use social media in order to connect with their friends and be a part of society...

from steve02476

Really liked this book. She really knows her stuff - everything she says about technology rings true, and everything she says about teenagers does also. I totally recommend this to parents who worry about social networking and would like to better understand what's going on with their kids on the...

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Being a blogger means I use social media quite a bit, something which often highlights for me how technologically behind I'd be if I didn't blog. This has made me curious about how more technologically savvy people use social media, so I was excited to see how teens who grew up with social media ...

from jasonli

An incredibly well-researched, easy-to-read book about teens in the US today, and the way they inhabit internet social networks in their ever more restricted, day-to-day lives. Many unorthodox and surprising insights. A must read.