Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World (The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)
Description
Why media panics about online dangers overlook another urgent concern: creating equitable online opportunities for marginalized youth.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. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online experiences besides porn, predators, and ...
ISBN(s)
0262036029, 9780262036023
