Despite increasing public interest and concern about young people's involvement in the self-
production of sexual images (or 'sexting'), there remains a dearth of research into their …

The extended self was proposed in 1988. Since it was formulated, many technological
changes have dramatically affected the way we consume, present ourselves, and …

The Sixth Edition of William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt′ s groundbreaking text
discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective—providing in-depth …

Studies adopting the media ecology metaphor to investigate social movements form a
promising strand of literature that has emerged in the last years to overcome the …

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how
humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new …

This article develops a new theory of polymedia in order to understand the consequences of
digital media in the context of interpersonal communication. Drawing on illustrative …

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

How do you start to conduct your own research? Where do you go to get ideas? How do you
design a good research project? How does it relate to the rest of your studies? What is the …

The digital should and can be a highly effective means for reflecting upon what it means to
be human, the ultimate task of anthropology as a discipline. To date, most of the literature on …

The past decade's research on the use and effects of older (television, music, movies,
magazines) and newer media (the Internet, cell phones, social networking) on adolescents' …