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A review by anetq
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd
3.0
For the most part very common sense advice that teens are just teens and the internet is not a place full of child-snatching paedophiles. But it's nice to see an American pointing out the all that fear & angst they wallow in is mostly in their heads...
Thus went the first five chapters: Identity, Privacy, Addiction, Danger & Bullying.
The last chapters: Inequality, Literacy and the finale Searching for a Public of Their Own - was more interesting, and there was great ammunition to fight the next old american white dude at a conference preaching his new book on how to deal with those all-knowing "digital natives".
There might not have been that many new points to me, but she is an academic, so there are plenty of good notes and references for future reading.
Thus went the first five chapters: Identity, Privacy, Addiction, Danger & Bullying.
The last chapters: Inequality, Literacy and the finale Searching for a Public of Their Own - was more interesting, and there was great ammunition to fight the next old american white dude at a conference preaching his new book on how to deal with those all-knowing "digital natives".
There might not have been that many new points to me, but she is an academic, so there are plenty of good notes and references for future reading.