Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives

<p>Adolescents are forging a new path to self-development taking advantage of the technology at their fingertips to produce desired results.</p><p></p><p>In <em>Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives</em> Walsh specifically explores how social media impacts teenagers' personal development. Indeed through unique empirical data Walsh presents an aspect of teen media use that is not often documented in the press—the seemingly deep and meaningful process of evaluating the self visually in an attempt to reconcile their presentation with their internal self-story. Nevertheless as Walsh outlines this is not a process without its challenges.</p><p></p><p>Tracking teenagers’ progress towards self-validation from the offline stages preceding online exhibitions this enlightening volume will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students scholars and researchers interested in fields such as Social Media Studies Sociology of Adolescence Identity Formation Developmental Psychology and Society and Technology.</p>