194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a ‘wasteland’ for young people. Law has become preoccupied with privacy, intellectual property, defamation and criminal behaviour in and through social media. In the case of children and youth, this book argues, these preoccupations – whilst important – have disguised and distracted public debate away from a much broader, and... Read more
1. Moral panics, childhood, social media and the law 2. Recreating families in social media 3. Social media, young people and political accountability 4. Schools, young people and social media: surveillance and the role model void 5. Working in the online society: social media and young people in new workplace 6. Crime, Identity and Gender: how social media opens new worlds of hope and exploitation 7. ‘Don’t mention the porn’: social media and the rise of the sexual child 8. The New Wasteland: Law, Many Publics and the Loss of Interest
Biography
Brian Simpson is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England, Australia.
