‘Adults don’t understand’: exploring how teens use dialectical frameworks to navigate webs of tensions in online life
| Autor: | Shawna Malvini Redden, Amy K. Way |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Online and offline
Online participation business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Identity (social science) 050801 communication & media studies Public relations Focus group Language and Linguistics Negotiation 0508 media and communications 0502 economics and business Mobile technology The Internet Social media Psychology business Social psychology 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Communication Research. 45:21-41 |
| ISSN: | 1479-5752 0090-9882 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00909882.2016.1248465 |
| Popis: | As communication increasingly takes place online and via mobile technologies, young people are the fastest growing adopters of new online platforms. Consequently, communication scholars have begun to consider young people’s experiences online, comparing online and offline interactions, establishing how developmental stages affect youth’s engagement with online content, and documenting risks for youth’s experience online. We argue that much can be gained from a ‘tension-centered’ approach that highlights the competing demands of young people’s online engagement and problematizes current conceptions of risk. Through focus group interviews with teens, we examine current trends of online activity and re-conceptualize opportunities for conducting research with youth. Teens’ ‘local logics’ for negotiation webs of communicative tensions online reveal articulation of formal rules, which are later eclipsed by lived experiences. We offer strategies for parents, caregivers, and educators to more productively... |
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