978-0-300-20383-7 Yale 978-0-300-SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Adams Hart Gardner/Davis Bernstein R H T E T A T L 978-0-300-18000-8 G G B L $26.00 978-0-300-16684-2 978-0-300-19621-4 978-0-300-17909-5 $25.00 $25.00 $38.00 Sutherland Mansoor Cott Grayling A L H S S S F L 978-0-300-17235-5 978-0-300-18979-7 978-0-300-17535-6 978-0-300-18685-7 $28.00 $26.00 $26.00 $25.00 Hecht Barber Damrosch Gurche S I M R J S S H 978-0-300-18608-6 W 978-0-300-16499-2 978-0-300-18202-6 $26.00 978-0-300-16467-1 $35.00 $49.95 $30.00 RECENT GENERAL INTEREST HIGHLIGHTS 1 General Interest Long strands of lace lichen, Ramalina menziesii, growing on the branches of a fruit tree, possibly a species of Prunus, in California’s Napa Valley. From A Field Guide to California Lichens, page 35. Photograph by Stephen Sharnoff. General Interest 1 How are teenagers’ lives different today? The most visible difference is, of course, technology. Many of today’s youth have access to tools that allow them to connect to people and information in unprecedented ways. Yet this is not actually the most salient difference It’s Complicated between now and the past. Teens today are also more heavily constrained in their mobility, more regulated The Social Lives of Networked Teens in terms of their time and activities, and under more danah boyd pressure than those from previous generations. This means that they have fewer opportunities to socialize in unstructured, face-to-face settings. Technology often An essential read, written by a leading expert, www.danah.org serves as a relief valve, allowing teens to hang out with for anyone who wants to understand young friends when getting together isn’t otherwise possible. A conversation people’s use of social media with danah boyd What most surprised you from your interviews of teens? Given the plethora of concerns about social media, I What is new about how teenagers communicate through expected to see problems everywhere. I was most services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do surprised to find that most teens had a perfectly healthy social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this relationship with technology and that many of the eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert struggles they faced were age-old issues made more danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regard- visible through social media. I found that the newness of ing teens’ use of social media. She explores tropes technology distracted many well-intended adults from about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. helping young people with the challenges they do face. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged What topics dominate society’s conversations about citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite youth? How would you change the focus? an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds Most conversations that focus on teens’ use of social that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a media—and their lives more generally—center on the sense of identity. risks youth face. While it’s important to protect youth Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for from dangers, a society based on fear-mongering is not parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but “In explaining the networked realm healthy. Let’s instead talk about how we can help youth also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging of teens, boyd has the insights of a be passionate, engaged, constructive members of society technologies on society, culture, and commerce in sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and rather than how we can protect them from statistically years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more the savvy of a technologist. For parents anomalous dangers. Let’s understand those teens who are than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing puzzled about what their kids are truly at risk; these teens often have the least support. teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reas- doing online, this is an indispensable suringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she book.”—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a net- Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs worked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated. “danah boyd is one of the smartest people thinking about how teenagers use the Internet—a topic of enormous importance to parents, me included. Her book is smart, sophisticated, danaH boyd is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, and imbued throughout with a rare and wonderful sensitivity to the real, lived experiences Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and Fellow at of teenagers. Read it to understand what they’re doing online, and why—you’ll come away Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how youth integrate technology into their every- enlightened!”—Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying day practices and other interactions between technology and society. and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy She lives in New York City. February Internet Culture/Social Science Cloth 978-0-300-16631-6 $25.00 Also available as an eBook. 1 1 296 pp. 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 World 2 General Interest How are teenagers’ lives different today? The most visible difference is, of course, technology. Many of today’s youth have access to tools that allow them to connect to people and information in unprecedented ways. Yet this is not actually the most salient difference It’s Complicated between now and the past. Teens today are also more heavily constrained in their mobility, more regulated The Social Lives of Networked Teens in terms of their time and activities, and under more danah boyd pressure than those from previous generations. This means that they have fewer opportunities to socialize in unstructured, face-to-face settings. Technology often An essential read, written by a leading expert, www.danah.org serves as a relief valve, allowing teens to hang out with for anyone who wants to understand young friends when getting together isn’t otherwise possible. A conversation people’s use of social media with danah boyd What most surprised you from your interviews of teens? Given the plethora of concerns about social media, I What is new about how teenagers communicate through expected to see problems everywhere. I was most services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do surprised to find that most teens had a perfectly healthy social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this relationship with technology and that many of the eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert struggles they faced were age-old issues made more danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regard- visible through social media. I found that the newness of ing teens’ use of social media. She explores tropes technology distracted many well-intended adults from about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. helping young people with the challenges they do face. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged What topics dominate society’s conversations about citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite youth? How would you change the focus? an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds Most conversations that focus on teens’ use of social that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a media—and their lives more generally—center on the sense of identity. risks youth face. While it’s important to protect youth Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for from dangers, a society based on fear-mongering is not parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but “In explaining the networked realm healthy. Let’s instead talk about how we can help youth also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging of teens, boyd has the insights of a be passionate, engaged, constructive members of society technologies on society, culture, and commerce in sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and rather than how we can protect them from statistically years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more the savvy of a technologist. For parents anomalous dangers. Let’s understand those teens who are than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing puzzled about what their kids are truly at risk; these teens often have the least support. teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reas- doing online, this is an indispensable suringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she book.”—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a net- Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs worked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated. danaH boyd is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how youth integrate technology into their every- day practices and other interactions between technology and society. She lives in New York City. February Internet Culture/Social Science Cloth 978-0-300-16631-6 $25.00 Also available as an eBook. 1 1 296 pp.