Nancy Jo Sales
Autore di American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
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Nancy Jo Sales graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1986. She has written for several publications including Vanity Fair, New York, and Harper's Bazaar. She is known for her reporting on youth culture and crime and for her profiles of pop-culture icons. She won a 2011 Front Page Award mostra altro for Best Magazine Feature and a 2010 Mirror Award for Best Profile, Digital Media. She is the author of The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped off Hollywood and Shocked the World and American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers. The Sofia Coppola film The Bling Ring was based on Sales's 2010 Vanity Fair piece The Suspects Wore Louboutins. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- 7
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- 509
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- #48,721
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- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 14
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- 26
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The tasks of adolescence are difficult enough without the overt "sexification" introduced to, and expected of, barely pubescent children. Girls hold themselves to unreasonable standards of physical beauty in order to impress boys as well as other girls; tastemakers and online "influencers" have fundamentally altered the landscape of childhood. Children feel an accelerating need to keep up with the perceived lives of their peers and "FOMO" lends a frantic sense to adolescent and young adult lives.
I chose to read this book because I do not use online tools like Instagram, Tik-Tok, etc. and I can't imagine giving any sh*ts about what strangers on the Internet think of me. I was about to say these tools are not a part of my world (but of course they are, unfortunately -- just because I don't use them doesn't mean they don't affect people I love), and that I don't care about these sites (but of course I do, because as a responsible parentlike person I must be aware of their pernicious influence).
All I can really say is this: If you have children, or if you love children, read the book. Be aware of the struggles your children face, even if you feel those struggles aren't real -- they are horrifyingly real to them. As a smack-in-the-middle Gen-Xer, I found myself incredulous that anyone - child or adult - could mistake the illusory online world for the real one, but I was wrong.
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