HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Sales, Nancy Jo, author.
Subjects
Internet and teenagers.
Teenage girls -- United States.
Teenage girls -- United States -- Conduct of life.
Teenage girls -- United States -- Social life and customs.
Social media.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Sales, Nancy Jo, author.
by title:
American girls : soc...
MARC Display
American girls : social media and the secret lives of teenagers / Nancy Jo Sales.
by
Sales, Nancy Jo, author.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Subjects
Internet and teenagers.
Teenage girls -- United States.
Teenage girls -- United States -- Conduct of life.
Teenage girls -- United States -- Social life and customs.
Social media.
ISBN:
9780385353922 :
0385353928
Description:
404 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What is it doing to an entire generation of young women? From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence -- one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl's first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism, Nancy Jo Sales provides a shocking window into the troubling world of today's teenage girls.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Due Date
Aina Haina Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
004.67808 Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
004.67808 Sa
Transit
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
004.67808 Sa
Checked out
05/28/2024
Add Copy to MyList
Kapolei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
004.67808 Sa
Checked out
05/23/2024
Add Copy to MyList
Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
004.67808 Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
North Kohala Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
004.67808 Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
004.67808 Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.