‘Someone has taken all my tiaras

Pre-teen girls’ emotional engagements with controversial online behaviors

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21785697
AutoresA C Evaldsson (0000-0002-6556-4494, Uppsala University, autor de correspondencia), Helen Melander Bowden (0000-0003-4769-4479, Uppsala University)
Año2025
Volumen50
Número4
Páginas448-466
Fecha de publicación2025-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLearning Media and Technology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1743-9884 • E-ISSN: 1743-9892
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17439884.2024.2354701
OpenAlexW4399390517
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas27

Based on ethnographic fieldwork including video recordings, this study examines how pre-teen girls, in everyday peer interaction, deal with controversial issues on a social media network. Drawing on a multimodal interactional approach, we analyze the situated affective and collaborative embodied work through which a peer group unravels and remedies problematic online behaviors (cheating, scamming, stealing). The results show how the girls affectively align themselves to deal with online risks in ways that demand different social media skills as well as networks of supportive peers. The girls agentively draw upon the affordances (texting, images, social norms) of the social media network as well as their expertise and collective knowledge of similar online events. The creative power of the peer group plays an important role, in terms of how the girls nourish their peer culture while building mutual trust and collaborative competencies for interpreting and anticipating risky practices in their lives with peers

Developmental psychology · Child Development and Digital Technology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Psychology