Wired youth
Subtitle: the social world of adolescence in the information age
By: Gustavo Mesch and Ilan Talmud.
Contributors: Talmud, Ilan.
Series: Adolescence and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415459938; 9780415459945
Subjects: Internet and teenagers; Technology and youth -- Social aspects; Information society -- Social aspects; Information technology -- Social aspects
Description: "This book presents an up-to-date review of the literature on youth sociability, relationship formation, and online communication, examining the way young people use the internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. Using a social network perspective, the book systematically explores the various effects of internet access and use on adolescents' involvement in social, leisure and extracurricular activities, evaluating the arguments that suggest the internet is displacing other forms of social ties. The core of the book investigates the motivations for online relationship formation and the use of online communication for relationship maintenance. The final part of the book focuses on the consequences, both positive and negative, of the use of online communication, such as increased social capital and online bullying."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.