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Being strategic and taking control: bedrooms, social network sites and the narratives of growing up

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posted on 2023-05-18, 04:28 authored by Lincoln, S, Robards, B
Despite being distinct, online social spaces are governed by norms and conventions reminiscent of those that govern offline social spaces. Our research into the ways young people’s ‘private’ or ‘quasi-private’ spaces are managed indicates that the strategies used to exert a sense of control over sites like Facebook borrow heavily from the strategies employed to manage offline private spaces like the teenage bedroom. In this article, we explore these continuities and then consider the limitations of applying a bedroom metaphor to online social spaces. We then consider how these strategies of control are related to a process of ‘marking out’ the narrative of ‘growing up’ both in online and offline social spaces.

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Publication title

New Media and Society

Volume

18

Issue

6

Pagination

927-943

ISSN

1461-4448

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd.

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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Copyright 2014 SAGE Publications

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