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Book Analysis: It's Complicated, by Danah Boyd

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For this activity, you should read the introduction from the book It's Complicated, by Danah Boyd and answer the following reading questions.
Please have these in by bedtime on Sunday, so that I can read them on Monday morning.
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I came across this book while researching the loneliness article, and I thought that Boyd’s perspective was interesting and valuable, in particular when she describes the differences in perspective between teens and adults. I am wondering whether to include this (the same reading or else more of the book) as part of our reading for future iterations of The Digital Lives Project.
Note: I do not consider you currently to belong to the group identified as “teens” even though you did just a few years ago. Rather, I consider you to be adults, and consequently, I may be inclined to use terms like “Boomers,” “parents,” or “older adults,” to refer collectively to pre-Millennial generations.
1) Do her descriptions and analysis seem to you to be generally accurate?
2) Did you enjoy reading this chapter? Was your reaction, “Finally, an older adult who understands us?” Or was it, “This is boring to read because it’s what we live with everyday.” Would you want to see me assign the whole book or some of it in future semesters?
3) While I find Boyd’s stance to be legitimate, I wonder if she has a bias (everyone has one) too much in favor of the technology. She was, after all, a principle researcher at Microsoft. I don’t question her integrity or her methods, but she sometimes seems to minimize the role of the technology too much.
So, does it seem that way to you, or does she seem to be right on?
4) Boyd’s perspective on this issue is different than the philosophers like Borgman that we read earlier. Her focus is on how young people are using and adapting to technology here and now; theirs is on what kinds of subtle yet fundamental changes will the technology bring in the way people see things over time. Do you feel that Boyd’s treatment makes the concerns of these philosophers less important or compelling or that their questions remain just as legitimate?

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1) Do her descriptions and analysis seem to you to be generally accurate?
Her descriptions and analysis seem to be generally accurate, considering that the issue she is addressing is quite pertinent in the current society. She describes the advent of social media as something permanent, as she states on pg. 27 that "the ability to navigate one's social relationships, communicate asynchronously, and search for info online is here to stay.” This is very accurate since social media is only growing an entrenching itself more and more into the lives of youngsters the world over. The growth of information technology has in turn resulted to a direct proportion in the growth of social media. Her analysis about the impact of social media on teens is also spot on. She says that for adults to understand teens and teen addiction to social media, it is important to take it as if one doesn’t understand the whole thing about social media and networking. In this way, it would be easier to really perceive this from the lens or he shoes of these teens.
2) Did you enjoy reading this chapter? Was your reaction, “Finally, an older adult who understands us?” Or was it, “This is boring to read because it’s what we live with every day.” Would you want to see me assign the whole book or some of it in future semesters?
While the general discussion might be something to do with day to day life in the current digital age, I really enjoyed reading this chapter. Boyd addresses the issue of social media in building social networks for teens in this chapter, in a way that tries to ‘repaint and redefine’ the general perception of the same, from the larger society. Teens are a microcosm of the society that often tends to be misunderstood, especially due to the fact that they are at a stage of life where they are trying to define themselves and carve out an identity for themselves as individuals. In this chapter, Boyd seems to be talking to everyone with a wrong mentality about teens, that they need to take a completely neutral stand for them to even start understanding teens (Boyd, 2014). I ...
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