Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognize young people's capacity for choice and recommends responses to sexting that are realistic and nuanced rather than based on misplaced fears about deviance, sexuality, and digital media.| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Typical responses to sexting Chapter 1. The criminalization consensus and the right to sext Chapter 2. Beyond teenage biology Chapter 3. Self-esteem advice and blame Part II. Alternative ways to think about sexting Chapter 4. Sexualization and participation Chapter 5. Information and consent Conclusion Appendix 1. A brief history of the sexting panic Appendix 2. Discourse analysis: How to find common sense Appendix 3. Sexting tips and recommendations Notes Works Cited Index | Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016. — National Communication Association (NCA)
|Amy Adele Hasinoff is an assistant professor of communications at the University of Colorado Denver.