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Nancy Jo Sales · 2016
An investigative examination of how social media and pornography are affecting the lives, self-image, and relationships of teenage girls in America, exploring issues of cyberbullying, sexualization, and the need for feminist consciousness in the digital age.
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What this book knows
Social media has become a primary arena where girls learn, perform, and suffer the oldest double standards with new algorithmic intensity.
erotic-as-power
Something about social media is making girls more submissive to boys… boys dominate. But on social media, girls are the ones being asked to perform.
AGSM-RC-165For girls to model themselves in the image of pornography is for them to embrace their own disempowerment.
AGSM-RC-323shame
Hookup culture is an incredibly antifeminist culture. It's the antithesis of empowerment and choice.
AGSM-RC-226Each of the boys had nude or semi-nude photos on his phone of girls they knew or had met on social media.
AGSM-RC-039self-and-identity
Their thinking was changing, and they seemed emboldened to talk about things—slut-shaming and a punishing double standard—in a way they might not have before.
AGSM-RC-017Girls our age live on their phones. We feel like our social lives are in our phones, and as long as we feel that way, people will keep making apps to make us rely on it more.
AGSM-RC-194Illuminates
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