Sexting panic : rethinking criminalization, privacy, and consent /

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Author / Creator:Hasinoff, Amy Adele, author.
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Description:xi, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Feminist media studies
Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10156266
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ISBN:9780252080623
0252080629
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognize young people's capacity for choice and recommends responses to sexting that are realistic and nuanced rather than based on misplaced fears about deviance, sexuality, and digital media.
Physical Description:xi, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780252080623
0252080629