Wired Youth

The Social World of Adolescence in the Information Age
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-45994-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 237 g

Reihe: Adolescence and Society

The debate on the social impact of information and communication technologies is particularly important for the study of adolescent life, becausethrough their close association with friends and peers, adolescents develop life expectations, school aspirations, world views, and behaviors.
This book presents an up-to-date review of the literature on youth sociability, relationship formation, and online communication, examining the way young people use the internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. Using a social network perspective, the book systematically explores the various effects of internet access and use on adolescents’ involvement in social, leisure and extracurricular activities, evaluating the arguments that suggest the internet is displacing other forms of social ties. The core of the book investigates the motivations for online relationship formation and the use of online communication for relationship maintenance. The final part of the book focuses on the consequences, both positive and negative, of the use of online communication, such as increased social capital and online bullying.
Wired Youth isideal for undergraduate and graduate students of adolescent psychology, youth studies, media studies and the psychology and sociology of interpersonal relationships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talmud, Ilan (University of Haifa, Israel)

Talmud, Ilan

Mesch, Gustavo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Information Age, Youth and Social Networks. 2. The Internet at Home. 3. Sociability and Internet Use. 4. Online Relationship Formation. 5. ICT and Existing Ties. 6. The Impact of ICT on Social Network Structure 7. Online Communication and Negative Social Ties 8. Summary and Discussion.

Über Autor(innen)

Gustavo S. Mesch is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. He is currently the Chair of the Information and Communication Section of the American Sociological Association. His main research interests include youth culture, technology and society, online communication and the interface of online and face to face social networks.
Ilan Talmudis a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. His main research interests include social network analysis, the internet and society, economic sociology, organization and management theory and theories of social capital.