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Author:

Morrison, Connie (Connie M.)

Title:

Who do they think they are? : teenage girls & their avatars in spaces of social online communication / Connie Morrison.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Internet and teenagers--Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology) in adolescence.
Teenage girls--Psychology.
Avatars (Computer graphics)--Psychological aspects.
Online social networks--Psychological aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Avatars, identity and autobiography : a theoretical perspective -- Making a WeeMee one click at a time -- The girls and their avatars : who do they think they are? -- That's not who I am today : making and remaking identity -- I can't find a thing to wear! : the pressure to look cool -- "Just a second of your life represented" : what avatars can and cannot do -- DIY : making avatars in English class.

Series:

New literacies and digital epistemologies, 1523-9543 ; v. 40

ISBN:

1433105527 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781433105524 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320895388

LCCN:

2009018331

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)