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Article: Mazzarella, Sharon. (Ed.). Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity.(Book review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- June 1, 2006
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Mazzarella, Sharon. (Ed.). Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. x, 225. ISBN 0-8204-7117-8 (pb.) $29.95.
If media effects researchers have raised alarms about what popular media do to girls by offering unhealthy body images and stereotypical role portrayals, cultural studies scholars tend to ask what girls do with media. The 11 essays in Girl Wide Web--all of them focused on how young women explore and manage a sense of self online--clearly emerge from the cultural studies paradigm.
Chapters pursue the central theme of girls' identity development through the Internet by exploring commercial ...