Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252080623)

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.

Author: Amy Adele Hasinoff
ISBN-10: 0252080629
ISBN-13: 9780252080623
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.81h x 6.46w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2015