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Sexting Panic:

Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent
  • ISBN-13: 9780252080623
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Amy Adele Hasinoff
  • Price: AUD $56.99
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2015
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]
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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 criminalisation 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 victimises young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognise 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.
''A fantastic antidote to the media-driven moral panic. . . . Hasinoff's thoughtful book offers a framework for rethinking sexual media production and the politics of consent. This is a critical intervention to a fraught topic.'' --danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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