Who do they think they are?
Subtitle: teenage girls & their avatars in spaces of social online communication
By: Connie Morrison
Series: New literacies and digital epistemologies -- v. 40; New literacies and digital epistemologies -- v. 40.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781433105524
Subjects: Internet and teenagers; Teenage girls; Psychology; Identity (Psychology) in adolescence; Psychological aspects; Avatars (Virtual reality); Online social networks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Avatars, identity and autobiography : a theoretical perspective; title: Making a WeeMee one click at a time; title: The girls and their avatars : who do they think they are?; title: That's not who I am today : making and remaking identity; title: I can't find a thing to wear! : the pressure to look cool; title: "Just a second of your life represented" : what avatars can and cannot do; title: DIY : making avatars in English class.