Yup. This one went right in virtual shopping cart.
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (must, MUST read)
Sociologist danah boyd’s long-awaited first book, It’s
Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, hits shelves
today. boyd is one of the preeminent scholars of the way young people
— especially marginalized young p…
Yes, thought of you and +Dave Hill when I heard this one.
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282359480/social-media-researcher-gets-how-teenagers-use-the-internet
It's interesting — Kay has practically zero interest in social networks (despite some prodding on our part). She texts a lot with her friends, and occasionally checks her email, but that's about it.
Ditto Ray; the only value she sees in FB is cat picture type stuff. To her, social network = chat channel on games.