A review by bluestjuice
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd

4.0

I found this to be excellently written and insightful, a nuanced, thoughtful analysis of teen culture in the areas of technology, the internet, and social networking. Boyd does a splendid job sifting through the noise and connecting with the demographic in question to assess how teens are actually using the internet and social networking, and her conclusions in areas such as cyberbullying and internet addiction are surprising and encouraging. She takes the view that teen culture has changed less because of the internet age than one might surmise, and reiterates over and over again that the driving force behind the way teens interact with technology is a social one, not a technological one.