- Dec 2017
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Teens’ struggles to make sense of the networked publics they inhabit—and the ways in which their practices reveal cultural fractures—high-light some of the challenges society faces as technology gets integrated into daily life.
I think almost every teen at one point or another really struggles with these new networked publics and it is something that needs to be taught and emphasized from an early age.
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Whenever Manu posted something on Facebook, he felt that he was forcing everyone he’d ever met to consume it, whereas on Twitter, people opted in when they felt that what he was sharing was interest-ing. As he explained, “I guess Facebook is like yelling it out to a crowd, and then Twitter is just like talking in a room.”
Interesting thought process, never thought of things this way and the differences kids have when it comes to different social networking sites.
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When teens turn to networked publics, they do so to hang out with friends and be recognized by peers. They share in order to see and be seen. They want to look respectable and interesting, while simultane-ously warding off unwanted attention.
Yes, but it is also forced by the fact that they do not have that place where they can go 24/7 to socialize.
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Laws that define when, where, and how they can gather shape teens’ activities and mobility. In the same vein, teens’ worldviews are influenced by cultural dynamics that underpin American society more generally.
So true. Laws and rules defining how kids can gather have really shaped the way they socialize now.
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Rather than fighting to reclaim the places and spaces that earlier cohorts had occupied, many teens have taken a different approach: they’ve created their own publics
This was definitely something that happened with me. My friend group never tried to do what the older kids were doing because we often times were unwelcomed, therefore we had to create our own spaces to do things
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Unlike Emily, I was often forbidden from going to Park City. When I was in high school, the local business community had teamed up with the school district to create an alternative high school for students who were not succeeding in traditional schools. They decided to place this experimental school at Park City because that’s where so many of the students they were seeking to attract were hanging out. Those kids—and, by extension, the mall—had a bad reputation for violence, truancy, and delinquency more generally.
It is unbelievable how quickly perceptions of areas and geographic locations can change in such a short amount of time.
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I find it very interesting and actually understand now the process behind people wanting to go to events. I was always one of those people that would go to the event for the event but I realized there is a lot more social interaction that is there than one may even realize.
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