| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Playspaces, childhood, and videogames / Shanly Dixon and Sandra Weber -- "I'm the one who makes the Lego racers go" : studying virtual and actual play / Seth Giddings -- Technology in the everyday lives of "tweens" / Sandra Weber, with Julia Weber -- The girls' room : negotiating schoolyard friendships online / Kelly Boudreau -- "I think we must be normal ... there are too many of us for this to be abnormal!!!" : girls creating identity and forming community in pro-ana/mia websites / Michele Polak -- Private writing in public spaces : girls' blogs and shifting boundaries / Brandi Bell -- Consuming fashion and producing meaning through online paper dolls / Rebekah Willett -- Producing gender in digital interactions : what young people set out to achieve through computer game design / Caroline Pelletier -- Contexts, pleasures, and preferences : girls playing computer games / Diane Carr -- Adolescent girls' expression on web home pages : spirited, somber, and self-conscious sites / Susannah R. Stern -- Playing at and with popular teen culture on "girl" websites : the case of Alice / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- Girl culture and digital technology in the age of AIDS / Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- New girl (and new boy) at the internet café : digital divides/digital futures / Claudia Mitchell and Grace Sokoya -- Contested spaces : protecting or inhibiting girls online / Leslie Regan Shade -- Reviewing young people's engagement with technology / Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon |
| Summary |
In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds are incorporating and making sense of digital technology in their everyday lives. Contributors explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Internet and children.
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Internet and women.
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Internet and teenagers.
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COMPUTERS -- Online Services.
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COMPUTERS -- System Administration -- Storage & Retrieval.
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Internet and children
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Internet and teenagers
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Internet and women
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Jugend
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Computerspiel
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Neue Medien
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Internet
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Informationsteknik -- tonåringar -- genus.
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Datorer -- Internet -- spel.
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Könskillnader -- flickor -- pojkar -- lek.
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Massmedia.
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Sociologi.
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enfant -- Internet.
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adolescent -- Internet.
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femme -- internet.
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Ungdomar och Internet.
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Jugend.
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Internet.
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Computerspiel.
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Neue Medien.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dixon, Shanly, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9780230109049 |
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0230109047 |
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9780230607019 |
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0230607012 |
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1281780766 |
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9781281780768 |
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9780230620018 |
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0230620019 |
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