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Growing Up Online This page intentionally left blank Growing Up Online Young People and Digital Technologies Edited by Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon ISBN 978-0-230-62001-8 ISBN 978-0-230-60701-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230607019 GROWINGUPONLINE Copyright © Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon, 2007. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-1-4039-7814-1 All rights reserved. First published in hardcover in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St.Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK,Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan,a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England,company number 785998,of Houndmills, Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom,Europe and other countries. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd.,Chennai,India. First PALGRAVE MACMILLAN paperback edition:May 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my brother Lawrence, never forgotten, always loved. For my father Kenneth Dixon, my first and best teacher. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi About the Contributors xiii Introduction: Perspectives on Young People and Technologies 1 Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon One Playspaces, Childhood, and Video games 17 Shanly Dixon and Sandra Weber Two “I’m the One Who Makes the Lego Racers Go”: Studying Virtual and Actual Play 37 Seth Giddings Three Girls’ Adoption of New Technologies 51 Sandra Weber, with Julia Weber Four The Girls’ Room: Negotiating Schoolyard Friendships Online 69 Kelly Boudreau 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 83 Michele Polak Six Private Writing in Public Spaces: Girls’ Blogs and Shifting Boundaries 97 Brandi Bell Seven Consuming Fashion and Producing Meaning through Online Paper Dolls 115 Rebekah Willett viii ● Contents Eight Producing Gender in Digital Interactions: What Young People Set Out to Achieve through Computer Game Design 131 Caroline Pelletier Nine Contexts, Pleasures, and Preferences: Girls Playing Computer Games 151 Diane Carr Ten Adolescent Girls’ Expression on Web Home Pages: Spirited, Somber, and Self-Conscious Sites 161 Susannah R. Stern Eleven Playing At and With Popular Teen Culture on “Girl” Websites: The Case of Alice 183 Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Twelve Girl Culture and Digital Technology in the Age of AIDS 197 Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Thirteen New Girl (and New Boy) at the Internet Café: Digital Divides/Digital Futures 213 Claudia Mitchell and Grace Sokoya Fourteen Contested Spaces: Protecting or Inhibiting Girls Online? 229 Leslie Regan Shade Fifteen Reviewing Young Peoples’ Engagement with Technology 249 Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon Index 263 List of Illustrations Table 9.1 Games supplied during the term 154 Figures 7.1 Dani’s paper doll outfit 116 8.1 Kate’s screenshot 135 8.2 Liz’s screenshot 136 8.3 Janet’s screenshot 136 8.4 Jak’s screenshot 137 8.5 Tom’s screenshot 138 8.6 Paul’s screenshot 138 8.7 A screenshot from Simon’s game in player mode 145 8.8 A screenshot from the same game in designer mode 145
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