FINAL PRESENTATION PAMELA MERRIMAN

LIVING IN A NETWORKED WORLD

SECTION 01

DECEMBER 9TH, 2014

IT’S COMPLICATED: THE SOCIAL LIVES OF NETWORKED TEENS

Author: Danah Boyd

Published: 2014

http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

OVERVIEW

• Boyd’s attempt to “describe and explain the networked lives of teens to the people who worry about them – parents, teachers, policy makers, journalists, sometimes other teens.”

• 2005 – 2012 traveled around US observing teen behavior • Social networking sites, blogs

• Public places – schools, parks, malls, churches, fast food restaurants

• 2007 – 2010 conducted formal, semi structured interviews• 166 interviews

• Homes, schools, public places

• Teens, parents, teachers, librarians, youth ministers

CLASS RELATION – PRIVACY

• SOCIAL MEDIA

• Introduced new dimension to well-worn fights over private space and self-expression

• “I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE”

• May say you have nothing to hide, but do you want strangers knowing everything about you?

• LOOKING FOR PLACE TO CALL THEIR OWN

• Older generations now joining social media (Ex. Facebook)

• “Privacy isn’t necessarily something that they have; rather it is something they are actively and continuously trying to achieve in spite of structural or social barriers that make it difficult to do so.”

CLASS RELATION – BULLYING

• CYBERBULLYING

• Three components of Bullying – aggression, repetition, and imbalance of power

• SOCIAL MEDIA

• Teen popularity, status

• Easy to spread hate and harmful things

• CONSTANT ISSUE

• Has been an issue before cyberbullying

• Need to figure out how to address bullying as a whole

CLASS RELATION – INEQUALITY

• “As I describe throughout this book, the mere existence of technology neither creates nor magically solves cultural problems.”

• TECHNOLOGY

• Expected to solve cultural problems – not the case

• People bring their identities, values, opinions with them

• Products appear in the market, people realize aspects of technology and it’s design result in biases that disproportionately affect certain users

• Microsoft Kinnect – Face recognition - difficulty capturing darker skinned people

• Apple Siri – Voice recognitions – difficulty picking up some accents (Ex. Scottish, Southern US, Indian)

• PREJUDICE, RACISM, INTOLERANCE

RECOMMENDATION?

• YES, I would recommend this book

• Relates to our generation

• Discusses issues that you may have with your own parents

• Social media and how it has altered the way people interact

• Obtain a better understanding of how other people look at social media and our networked world

WORKS CITED

Boyd, Danah. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. New Haven: Yale University, 2014. N. pag. Kindle file.