Frontline- Growing Up Online
C. J. Pascoe, PHD of the Digital Youth Project, UC Berkeley goes on to explain (18:15): “In a way, the social networking sites are this digital representation of what we think of as adolescents. So what teens are doing is going around and trying on these different identities. I’m a goth, or I’m a punk, I’m a surfer or I’m a this, or that. And the internet’s allowed them to display that identity in a very dramatic and very succinct way.”
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