Worried about the wrong things : youth, risk, and opportunity in the digital world /

Worried about the wrong things : youth, risk, and opportunity in the digital world /

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Author / Creator:	Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description:	xvi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning.
Subject:	Information society -- United States. Digital media -- Social aspects -- United States. Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States. Internet and teenagers -- United States. Internet -- Safety measures. Internet -- Security measures. Digital media -- Social aspects. Information society. Information technology -- Social aspects. Internet and teenagers. Internet -- Safety measures. Internet -- Security measures. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11053281

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ISBN:	9780262036023 0262036029
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online experiences besides porn, predators, and peers. We need to turn our attention to inequitable opportunities for participation in a digital culture. Technical and material obstacles prevent low-income and other marginalized young people from the positive, community-building, and creative experiences that are possible online. Vickery explains that cautionary tales about online risk have shaped the way we think about technology and youth. She analyzes the discourses of risk in popular culture, journalism, and policy, and finds that harm-driven expectations, based a privileged perception of risk, enact control over technology. Opportunity-driven expectations, on the other hand, based on evidence and lived experience, produce discourses that acknowledge the practices and agency of young people rather than seeing them as passive victims who need to be protected. Vickery first addresses how the discourses of risk regulate and control technology, then turns to the online practices of youth at a low-income, minority-majority Texas high school. Finally, she shows that opportunity-driven expectations can guide young people's online experiences in ways that balance protection and agency.

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