57. De verdediging: DRAMA
“Drama is bedoeld voor een publiek.
Tieners zijn zich als geen ander bewust van het feit
dat ze voortdurend bekeken en beoordeeld worden.
Dit wordt versterkt door het (semi)publieke karakter
van sociale netwerken als Facebook.
Drama is een vorm van vermaak voor jongeren
en het drama wordt als het ware ‘opgevoerd’
voor een publiek,
of dat nou het publiek van het schoolplein
of van een sociaal netwerk is.”
58. One girl Dr. Boyd knows made her Facebook page
sound as if she were depressed so that she could
use her mental state as a pretext for breaking up
with a boyfriend.
When a teenager posts the lyrics to a suicidal
love song on her Facebook page, her mother
may panic while her friends know it’s just
a reference to an annoying ex-friend.
59.
60. Everyday social dynamics are predicated on the
notion that most interactions are private-‐by--default,
public--through-effort. The default is private,
not because it needs to be but because effort is
required to actually make things visible.
With social media, the opposite is assumed.
The very act of participation in networked publics
to publicize, most teens think about what to exclude.
They accept the public nature of information,
which might not have been historically shared
(perhaps because it was too mundane),
but they carefully analyze what shouldn’t be shared.
Disclosure is the default because participation
– and, indeed, presence – is predicated on it.
61. By focusing on a range of issues — sexual predation,
teenage suicide, bullying, sexting, drug and
alcohol abuse, sexual trafficking — Dr. Boyd
has shown,(...), that issues of race, class
and gender persist in the virtual world
just as in the real world. The children in families
characterized by alcohol and drug abuse,
financial stress, divorce and sexual abuse reveal
their struggles online just as they do off.
“She was the first to say that the teenagers at risk
off line are the same ones who are at risk online.
It’s not that the Internet is doing something bad
to these kids, it’s that these bad things are
in kids’ lives and the Internet is just a component of that.”
62. Jan van der Sluis / @janvds55 / janvds@ziggo.nl
Notas do Editor
One girl Dr. Boyd knows made her Facebook page sound as if she were depressed so that she could use her mental state as a pretext for breaking up with a boyfriend. When a teenager posts the lyrics to a suicidal love song on her Facebook page, her mother may panic while her friends know it’s just a reference to an annoying ex-friend.