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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Autor danah boyd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2015

Observăm în It's Complicated o schimbare de paradigmă necesară în studiul sociologic al mediului digital: analiza pornește direct de la interviurile realizate de danah boyd pe parcursul unui deceniu de muncă de teren. În loc să reia avertismentele alarmiste clasice, autoarea propune studii de caz care demonstrează modul în care adolescenții navighează structurile sociale complexe pe platforme precum Facebook sau Instagram. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care sunt demontate miturile despre „nativii digitali”, explorând situații concrete în care tinerii își negociază identitatea și nevoia de intimitate într-un spațiu public prin design.

Descoperim aici o critică argumentată la adresa protecționismului excesiv. danah boyd susține că, încercând să îi izolăm pe tineri de riscurile online, le limităm de fapt capacitatea de a deveni cetățeni implicați. Cartea nu este doar o analiză teoretică, ci o examinare a modului în care tehnologia mediază relațiile umane, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra bullying-ului și siguranței. Aceasta reprezintă o alternativă solidă la Teenagers and Technology pentru cursurile de sociologie sau educație media, având avantajul unei baze de date mult mai vaste, extrase direct din interacțiunile directe cu subiecții, ceea ce îi conferă o autoritate empirică deosebită.

Spre deosebire de Social Networking de Jennifer Obee, care funcționează mai degrabă ca un ghid practic de siguranță, volumul de față analizează contextul cultural și structural care determină comportamentul online. Textul este structurat tematic, abordând concepte precum „publicurile rețelelor” (networked publics) și modul în care proprietățile tehnologiei — persistența, vizibilitatea, răspândirea și căutarea — transformă experiența adolescenței.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300199000
ISBN-10: 0300199007
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor, părinților și educatorilor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea digitală dincolo de titlurile senzaționaliste. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care tinerii folosesc tehnologia pentru a-și construi autonomia. Este un instrument esențial pentru oricine dorește să sprijine dezvoltarea adolescenților într-o lume în care viața socială este, inevitabil, mediată tehnologic.


Despre autor

danah boyd este un recunoscut expert în tehnologie și cultură digitală, ocupând poziții de cercetător la Microsoft Research și fiind fondatoarea Data & Society Research Institute. Cu un doctorat la School of Information de la UC Berkeley, boyd s-a distins prin studiile sale etnografice asupra modului în care oamenii interacționează cu sistemele rețelelor sociale. Activitatea sa academică și publică se concentrează pe intersecția dintre inovația tehnologică și structurile sociale, fiind o voce influentă în dezbaterile privind etica datelor și impactul social al algoritmilor.


Descriere scurtă

“boyd’s new book is layered and smart . . . It’s Complicated will update your mind.”—Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review
 
“A fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.”—People
 
“The briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isn’t.”—Andrew Leonard, Salon
 
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity.

Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.

Recenzii

“danah boyd . . . is one of my favorite people to talk with about teenagers and technology. That’s not because I agree with her all the time. . . . But danah is the best kind of sparring partner because she always tells me something I didn’t know along the way. That holds true with her new book, which offers interviews with teenagers in communities across the country. By filtering them through her distinct danah lens, she gleans valuable insights.”—Emily Bazelon, Slate

“boyd’s new book is layered and smart. . . . It’s Complicated will update your mind.”—Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review

“There is something marvellously sensible about Boyd’s resolutely academic style. . . . boyd’s anatomy of teenage life is penetrating.”—Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

“The key point is that social behaviour is adaptive, and people in power (i.e., parents) rarely understand the coping strategies being used by others. When adults start worrying about our children’s use of the internet, we should also ask what we can learn from our children—and then look in the mirror at our own behaviour too. And have the courage to give kids more freedom physically to roam in the ‘real’ world—alongside their travels in cyberspace.”—Gillian Tett, Financial Times

“The book took a decade to complete, and cites sociologists including Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman, but it’s the voices of the 166 teenagers boyd interviewed across America that make it a truly enlightening read.”—Jane Mulkerrins, Sunday Telegraph

“Based on a decade of research and interviews with adolescents from the suburbs to the inner city, It’s Complicated is a persuasive anti-alarmist polemic that should help ease parents’ concerns about all sorts of Internet bogeymen.”—Randye Hoder, TIME Health & Family

It’s Complicated is both a report from the front lines and a larger social analysis. . . . It probes much deeper than just the latest fads in Twitter gossip or Snapchat goofiness. . . . On one level it is designed to counter the paranoia and anxiety that many parents still feel about their children’s engagement in social media. . . . But on another level it is a poignant critique of contemporary civilization. . . . The briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isn’t.”—Andrew Leonard, Salon

It’s Complicated, a new book about teenagers and digital technology by the media scholar danah boyd, places today’s smartphones, iPads and laptops in the context of this perennial power struggle between adolescents and parents. In doing so, it adds much to our understanding of a young generation of hyper-connected, hybrid consumer-producers—a cohort whose behaviour often unites parents, educators and investors in collective bewilderment.”—Gautam Malkani, Financial Times

“Students, parents, and educators will find this a comprehensive study of how technology impacts teens’ lives and how adults can help balance rather than vilify its inevitable use.”—Publishers Weekly

“An exhaustively researched study of how teens use technology . . . and a manifesto on how parents as individuals and society as a whole let young people down when they insist on protection and paternalism over media literacy and critical thinking. Even readers who are not parents, or teens, may well find this one of the most interesting books of the year.”—Amy Benfer, Los Angeles Times

“A passionate, scholarly, and vividly described account of the reality of young peoples’ use of networked technologies in America today. Painstakingly researched through interviews and close study for more than a decade, boyd’s book is the most important analysis of networked culture I’ve yet to read.”—Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

“A fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today’s tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.”—People

“boyd’s extensive research illuminates the oft-misunderstood world of teens today, where social media is an extension of life. . . . Thorough information interwoven with common-sense advice from teens and the author enable readers, particularly parents, to relax a bit regarding this new media age. . . . Comprehensive new research that illuminates why and how social media is important to teens.”—Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the 2015 Educators Book Award given by the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

“In explaining the networked realm of teens, boyd has the insights of a sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and the savvy of a technologist. For parents puzzled about what their kids are doing online, this is an indispensable book.”—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs

“If you want to understand the digital worlds inhabited by today’s young people, this is the book to read.”—Howard Gardner, coauthor of The App Generation

‘Boyd has done her homework and listened well. She is a high-tech medium translating the language and meaning of teenagers and social networking.”—Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and In the Body of the World

“I want to get this publication into the hands of every teacher, parent, policy maker, and journalist. Thoughtful in her analysis and adept at skewering the most common misunderstandings and anxieties about teens’ online lives, boyd is the best possible person to write a book like this, and this book does not disappoint in any way.”—Henry Jenkins, coauthor of Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture

“Astute, nuanced, provocative and hopeful, boyd does it all in this must-read treatise on teens and their digital lives.”—Stephen Balkam, founder and CEO, Family Online Safety Institute


Notă biografică

danah boyd is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She lives in New York City.

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An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media