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American girls : social media and the secret lives of teenagers / Nancy Jo Sales.

by Sales, Nancy Jo.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

004.6780835 S163a

Internet and teenagers.

Teenage girls -- United States -- Social life and customs.

9780385353922 (hc.)

0385353928 (hc.)

404 pages ; 25 cm

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-388) and index.

The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women? Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. A disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence - one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl's first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism - a window into the troubling world of today's teenage girls.

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