Wired Youth: The Online Social World of Adolescence

✍ Scribed by Ilan Talmud, Gustavo Mesch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Adolescence and Society
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This fully updated new edition offers a research-based analysis of the online social world of adolescence, incorporating additional research findings that have appeared during the last decade. Talmud and Mesch take a realistic, sociological approach to online adolescents’ communication, demonstrating how online sociability is embedded in the larger social structure and in technological affordances.

Combining perspectives from sociology, psychology, and education with a focus on social constructionism, technological determinism, and social networking, the authors present an empirically anchored review of the field. The book covers topics such as youth sociability, relationship formation, online communication, and cyberbullying to examine how young people use the Internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. This new edition also incorporates new research findings on online adolescents' behaviour in general, and specifically in relation to social apps, providing a more updated outlook regarding various dimensions of adolescents' online interactions.

Wired Youth is essential reading for advanced students of adolescent psychology, youth studies, media studies, and the psychology and sociology of interpersonal relationships, as well as undergraduate students in developmental psychology, social psychology, youth studies, media studies, and sociology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1 The information age, youth, and social networks
Introduction
The information society and networked individualism
Technological and social views
Adolescence and social ties
The Internet and family tensions
Social networks
Social diversification
Summary
2 The Internet at home
Introduction
The family system and ICT
Family boundaries and information
The Internet and family time
ICTs and parent–adolescent conflict
Family adjustment and the Internet
Parental mediation
Social co-viewing
Restrictive mediation
Strategic and non-strategic mediation
Summary
3 Sociability and Internet use
Introduction
The displacement hypothesis
Principles of displacement
Functional similarity
Participation in activities and the social development of adolescents
The Internet and activity displacement
Time displacement
The Internet and time with peers
Internet use and network size
Displacement or multitasking?
Media convergence: more channels in play
Summary
4 Online relationship formation
Introduction
The social compensation hypothesis
Social diversification
Online ties and the structure of youth social networks
Quality of offline and online ties
Recent research
Adolescent friendships, networked individuals, and the information society
Effects of online relationship formation on social networks
Summary
Note
5 ICT and existing social ties
Introduction
Theoretical perspectives on online communication
Youth social network effects in the adoption of media
Communication channel choice
Online and face-to-face convergence
Personal effects of existing social ties
Summary
Note
6 The impact of ICT on social network structure
Introduction
The digital divide: from stratification to normalization and from access to skills and usage
Access and use: amplification or normalization?
Factors associated with inequalities in access
From divide to diversification: differential use of social capital
Social network density
The relational quality of adolescents in the information age
Summary
Notes
7 Online communication and negative social ties
Introduction
Cyberbullying from a social network perspective
From bullying to cyberbullying
Prevalence and consequences of cyberbullying
Results of cyberbullying
Explaining cyberbullying
Linking traditional bullying and cyberbullying
Online harassment
Summary
8 Conclusion
Introduction
Conclusion
The emergence of a new kind of literacy
Network size and relational depth
Diversification vs. closure
The digital divide
Negative and positive effects over time
Technological convergence and social integration of ICT into everyday life
The impact of algorithmic regulation on adolescents online
Bibliography
Index