Archive for the ‘Deviance’ Category
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Teens and Texting (New York Times, 5/26/09)
Step 1: Select an act, norm, or condition to become stigmatized. The group or subculture primarily associated with this topic should ideally have little to no political power, and already be associated with other deviant behaviors (e.g., teenagers).
Step 2: Write a title stating the ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
MySpace: 90,000 Sex Offenders Removed from Site
When I think of the attitudinal outlook driving moral panics, I think of my experience working as a technology assistant at a one-to-one laptop high school at the height of the MySpace/Facebook sexual predator panic from 2004-2006.
The school organized a series of informational sessions ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Your Generation Was Sluttier.
I didn't back up my assertion of decreasing adolescent sexual activity last night with much evidence, but Gene Expression's investigation is worth the read.
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
CNN:
Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
During my pilgrimage to City Lights bookstore, I came upon a book entitled Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity.
Unfortunately, I didn’t buy the book, and Amazon’s search inside feature let me down, so I can’t quote the passage I read in the Introduction. But in short, the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler’s work on social networks is getting a lot of attention from both online and traditional media. From yesterday’s Washington Post:
The pair reported last summer that obesity appeared to spread from one person to another through social networks, almost like a virus or a fad.
In a ...
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