E-mail address: rribak com. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. In the wake of a moral panic concerning a Facebook group that invited teenagers to post and rate their photos, this article draws on 6 focus groups conducted with teenage girls to explore how participants reflect upon the economy of visibility in such rating games.
Social Media and Secret Lives of American Teenage Girls
Social Media and Secret Lives of American Teenage Girls
Once upon a time, only the wealthy and privileged could afford to have their portraits painted by a small, select circle of artists. With the advent of photography, parents of all backgrounds could have pictures of their children, which were coveted as documents of their development and a way to show off their innocent beauty and charm to family and friends. Today, with smartphones and social media, we all have in our hands the means to broadcast our pride and joy to the world. Ninety-two percent of American children have an online presence before the age of 2. Parents post nearly 1, images of their children online before their fifth birthday.
Congresswoman Katie Hill shouldn't have been slut-shamed out of her job because of nude photos
Then she sent the full-length frontal photo to Isaiah, her new boyfriend. Both were in eighth grade. They broke up soon after. In less than 24 hours, the effect was as if Margarite, 14, had sauntered naked down the hallways of the four middle schools in this racially and economically diverse suburb of the state capital, Olympia. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of students had received her photo and forwarded it.
Congrats, everyone. The entire world of social media almost collapsed this week because of boobs. Not because of terrorism, or children hit with bombs walking around with no arms, or because of some grotesque anomaly in the world.