Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World

by Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

Book Overview

Why media panics about online dangers overlook another urgent concern: creating equitable online opportunities for marginalized youth.

It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262536218
• ISBN13: 9780262536219
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher