It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

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Kids Will Be Kids
If you listen to the vo

New Technologies, Old Hopes and Fears
Any new

technology but the public life that it enables.
Teens are desperate to have access to an

Persistence means that conversa-
tions conducted through social media are far from ephemeral; they
endure. Persistence enables different kinds of interactions than the
ephemeralit

Because technology is involved, networked publics have different
characteristics than traditional physical public spaces. Four affor-
dances, in particular, shape many of the mediated environments
that are created by social media. Although these affordances are not
in and of themselves new, their relation to one anoth

The design and architecture of environments enable certain types of
interaction to occur. Round tables with chairs make chatting with
someone easi

Publics provide a
space and a community for people to gather, connect, and help con-
struct society as we understand it.

Networked publics are publics that are restructured
by networked technologies. As such, they are simultaneously (

She explained,
“If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist.”