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About this book
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 backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives. They explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction: Perspectives on Young People and Technologies
- One: Playspaces, Childhood, and Video games
- Two: "I'm the One Who Makes the Lego Racers Go": Studying Virtual and Actual Play
- Three: Girls' Adoption of New Technologies
- Four: The Girls' Room: Negotiating Schoolyard Friendships Online
- Five: "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
- Six: Private Writing in Public Spaces: Girls' Blogs and Shifting Boundaries
- Seven: Consuming Fashion and Producing Meaning through Online Paper Dolls
- Eight: Producing Gender in Digital Interactions: What Young People Set Out to Achieve through Computer Game Design
- Nine: Contexts, Pleasures, and Preferences: Girls Playing Computer Games
- Ten: Adolescent Girls' Expression on Web Home Pages: Spirited, Somber, and Self-Conscious Sites
- Eleven: Playing At and With Popular Teen Culture on "Girl" Websites: The Case of Alice
- Twelve: Girl Culture and Digital Technology in the Age of AIDS
- Thirteen: New Girl (and New Boy) at the Internet Café: Digital Divides/Digital Futures
- Fourteen: Contested Spaces: Protecting or Inhibiting Girls Online?
- Fifteen: Reviewing Young Peoples' Engagement with Technology
- Index