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Sexting panic : rethinking criminalization, privacy, and consent / Amy Adele Hasinoff.

Summary:

"Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognize young people's capacity for choice and recommends responses to sexting that are realistic and nuanced rather than based on misplaced fears about deviance, sexuality, and digital media"--Publisher description.

Item details

ISBN: 9780252038983
ISBN: 0252038983
ISBN: 9780252080623
ISBN: 0252080629
Physical Description: xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Typical responses to sexting. The criminalization consensus and the right to sext -- Beyond teenage biology -- Self-esteem advice and blame -- Alternative ways to think about sexting. Sexualization and participation -- Information and consent.