Recommended Reading
Online predators, sexting, and social network sites
Cassell, J., & Cramer, M. (2008). High Tech or High Risk: Moral Panics about Girls Online. In T. McPherson (Ed.), Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected (pp. 53-75). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
danah boyd (2007). “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning – Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume (ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 119-142.
Levine, J. (2009). What’s the Matter With Teen Sexting?: Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness. The American Prospect, (February 9).
Lithwick, D. (2009). Textual Misconduct: What to do about teens and their dumb naked photos of themselves. Slate.com, (February 14).
Marwick, A. E. (2008). To catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic. First Monday, 13(6).
Tynes, B. M. (2007). Internet Safety Gone Wild? Sacrificing the Educational and Psychosocial Benefits of Online Social Environments. Journal of Adolescent Research, 22(6), 575-584.
Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., & Mitchell, K. (2004). Internet-initiated sex crimes against minors: Implications for prevention based on findings from a national study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 35(5), 424.e411.
Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., Mitchell, K. J., & Ybarra, M. L. (2008). Online “Predators” and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention Treatment. American Psychologist, 63(2), 111-128.
Adolescents, girls, sexuality, and education
Dohrn, B. (2004). All ellas: Girls locked up. Feminist Studies, 30(2), 302-324.
Freedman, E. B. (1987). “Uncontrolled Desires”: The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960. Journal of American History, 74(1), 83-106.
Irvine, J. M. (2002). Talk about sex : the battles over sex education in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lesko, N. (2001). Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence. New York: Routledge/Falmer.
Levine, J. (2002). Harmful to minors : the perils of protecting children from sex. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Odem, M. E. (1995). Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Patton, C. (1996). Fatal advice: how safe-sex education went wrong. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Tolman, D. L., Hirschman, C., & Impett, E. A. (2005). There Is More to the Story: The place of qualitative research on female adolescent sexuality in policy making. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2(4), 4-17.
