1st Edition

Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives A Digital Coming of Age

By Jill Walsh Copyright 2018
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Adolescents are forging a new path to self-development, taking advantage of the technology at their fingertips to produce desired results. In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives , Walsh specifically explores how social media impacts teenagers' personal development. Indeed, through unique empirical data, Walsh presents an aspect of teen media use that is not often... Read more

Introduction: "’Cause Pictures Speak a Lot of Words"





Chapter 1: Creating the Visual Narrative: "It’s their highlight reel that they’re showing you"





Chapter 2: Facebook Rules and Boundary Demarcation





Chapter 3: The Gendered Self-Narrative





Chapter 4: The Synthesis of the Real and the Reel Me





Conclusion: Launching the Evolving Self

Biography

Jill Walsh is a Social Media and Education Consultant and Lecturer in Sociology at Boston University.