| #3797122 in Books | Peter Lang International Academic Publishers | 2007-02-23 | 2007-03-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.60 x6.30l,.50 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An insightful take on girls' IM use|By Rebecca|This book offers readers a stronger understanding of how and why girls use instant messaging software (like AOL IM). In designing her study, Shayla Thiel Stern smartly found a group of adolescent girls who were willing to send her copies of their IM conversations. Stern's analysis of these conversations is solidly grounded with sou||«This accessibly written book gives readers direct insights into how instant messaging has become a vital part of American adolescent girls’ everyday lives. Shayla Thiel Stern’s method of inviting teenage girls to give her copies of their IM
Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging explains how girls use instant messaging – a primary mode of new media communication for their generation – in order to flirt, bond, fight, and generally relate to peers in ways that both transcend and play into their culture’s dominant gender norms. Examining IM conversations and interviews with the girls, Shayla Thiel Stern demonstrates exactly how girls use IM to construct i...
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