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Youth Connecting Online: From Chat Rooms to Social Networking sites. -…
Youth Connecting Online: From Chat Rooms to Social Networking sites.
Identity in Teenage Chat Rooms
C. Gender in Teenage Flirt Chats
Effects
Loosening Traditional Values
Different behavior in chat than in offline context
They cannot be judge by physical appearance (Girls)
More self confidence and focus on content of conversation
Gender display is important to attribute gender membership
The use of sexually attractive usernames
B. Chat Rooms Experimental Rooms
Chat rooms were opportunities for experimenting New and otherwise forbidden behaviours could be tried with few repercussions.
For instance, adolescents with migration backgrounds were free to try out conversations that their more traditional value system would not approve of.
As analysis of the interviews and the chat conversations showed, the girls' focus seemed to be more on the conversation itself, without having the goal of a date.
They reported that they did not use chat rooms to meet a chat partner in real life, but to have exciting and entertaining conversations
D. Negotiations of ethnicity
Ethnicity constructed in adolescents chat rooms conversations.
The use of nicknames to show ethnicity
Using country related trademarks on nicknames. Examples, plate number or place names.
E. Gender and Ethnic Identity in Chat rooms.
Gender is more important for a teenage flirt chat.
Ethnic is not crucial as they search for romantic partner.
Research found that users try hard not to chat with the same sex.
E. Other research on chat rooms and the development of identities.
Identity information was provided more often by younger participants.
Chat nicknames show gender stereotype
Gender was the most popular category of adolescents declarations.
To attract potential chat partners.
Teenage chatters faces racialized discourse.
Race is no longer taboo compared to face to face interactions.
The most commonly used online communication tools :
in 2008, 68% of German online youth, age 14 19 years, reported having used social networking sites
whereas in 2007 it was just 40% In addition to online social networking platforms,
virtual communication
More recent studies have found that young people do not often change their identities when they communicate online, but rather, display their offline gender and ethnic identity."
Provides the opportunity for young people to try and live new identities, such as "gender swapping in which teens can identify themselves as a different gender.
email, social networking sites, blogs, instant messaging, and chat rooms.