Author Nancy Jo Sales Jayne Wexler, Courtesy Penguin Random House (courtesy) Author Nancy Jo Sales talks teens, social media and the normalization of sexual violence | … It's a very marketable talent and they are so good at it, especially Kim. A: Well, a lot of the older chapters in the book are about dating and sex and romance and how different it is. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers. You know, if a kid needs advice on how to apply to college, parents can deal with that, but we never had dick pics, never dealt with any of that. Even the younger years in the book talk about how this kind of dating distorts their sense of trust. Rate, review and discuss American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales for free at Read Print. / CBS News. Sales interviewed more than 200 subjects, gir While many middle and high-income workers are back at work, the country's low-wage workers are still suffering from a recession that has annihilated their jobs. There's no history of it, no guidelines for it, no Judy Blume for "how do you feel when you post a picture and less than 50 people like it and you take it down?" Where do we go from here? We all know that people say things behind the screen that they would not say in real life. Scott Pelley reports. Kik. Not just girls but boys, too. In my case, it's just through being really open and listening and trying not to judge and have this fear. In American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, Nancy Jo Sales gives the trope a spin. 268. AMERICAN GIRLS: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, by Nancy Jo Sales. Putting herself on public display simply screams, "Look, everyone I'm sexy!" So, the tech-savvy preteen built his own website to help New Yorkers get appointments. Her new book, American Girls, opens with a … American Girls, by journalist Nancy Jo Sales, is the result of a two-and-a-half-year investigation into how social media is shaping the development of girls in America today and, by extension, what this means for fostering self-esteem and self-respect. Nancy Jo Sales’s September 30th piece, “Friends Without Benefits,” generated enormous response from readers both on VF.com and through several social-media channels that … By Nancy Jo Sale s. Photography by Justin Bisho p. August 6, 2015. Slut pages. Illustration by Rebecca Mock for TIME. February 26, 2016 / 6:00 AM by Nancy Jo Sales ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 2016. Teenage girls! We hope you can join us for what is sure to be an intriguing and informative talk. It's an important change that is welcome and has had a positive effect that led to a greater awareness of the history of the black experience in this country. There's this stereotype of girls being mean, there's this tremendous propaganda, there's this complete myth. There is this alleged claim that we are all becoming more connected and making revolutions, which is slightly true. How social media is disrupting the lives of teenagers. Nancy Jo Sales, Contributor. Did conducting this research change how you approached these issues with her? I said to her, well, do you ever talk to her about it? It's not perfect by any means -- "Frederick Douglass" is still not mandatory reading in high school, but there's more understanding than there ever was. You aren't there with your children and you need to talk about it. They are also providing free pictures for porn sites. They just have to talk, talk, talk -- talking is good for people. The Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress makes her film directorial debut with an acclaimed story, set in the 1960s, of a re-imagined meeting of four Black icons – Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke – discussing the civil rights movement. I don't think my book is saying social media is evil but it happens to be a tool, a place where a lot of really pernicious things happen. I can tell you from my observations and reporting that I do think parents need to be more involved and more aware and more informed. The young women Sales met are articulate, smart, and have found some empowerment through their online presences, but nevertheless, the experiences they share in the book feed into the sense that today's teens lead lives that revolve increasingly around their digital selves than their physical surroundings. Written by Nancy Jo Sales' ... Social media shitshows aren't uncommon, especially for brands, whose finely tuned messaging makes deviations in tone and content that much more obvious. And the mom said that her daughter doesn't want her to know about it. Is it the whole influence of the Kardashians, of this selfie-obsessed celebrity culture? During the Q&A, an articulate 13-year-old girl confidently shared her point of view. "It's almost like a title people associate me with," she told Sales in the book. When I was in school frat boy culture was an element of the atmosphere, but now it's pervasive. Visionary biochemist Jennifer Doudna shared the Nobel Prize last year for the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), which has the potential to cure diseases caused by genetic mutations. Believe it or not, Alexis Neiers is still feuding with journalist, Nancy Jo Sales, 10 years after she wrote the infamous Vanity Fair profile. How can we, as a society, help these children? Whisper. As a result, teens are more susceptible to becoming addicted to nicotine, drugs, and cellphone use and engaging in rebellious and risky behaviors. It's becoming more and more a part of our lives, like breathing. Whisper. You might ask, how can that be? It was July 13, 2009. A: That's almost a more rhetorical question. ... it's undeniable that social media has profoundly influenced the experience of teens in ways that older generations find difficult to comprehend. But at the same time girls are getting slut-shamed, sexually harassed and pressured into sending nude pictures of themselves in this electronic environment. Not all of it is bad news. This work, the result of interviews with over 200 teenage girls, examines the challenging and often disturbing effect of social media on their lives. Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. 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Over 70% of teens have smart phones which means they have access to the internet which in turn means they have easy access to pornography. There are virtually no enforceable societal or parental controls short of depriving a child of a phone which then subjects them to rejection from their real and virtual friends. Nancy Jo Sales, author of "American Girls - Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers," chats with, from left, Delaney Sizemore, Amy Fessenden and her daughter Camille Fessenden. A: People need to unload and listen and talk. It affects their sense of what it is to be a girl in a negative way. A: I think it's important to hear the voices of girls and that's what I wanted to do in this book. “Do you have a finsta?” I asked my daughter, Jane, 15. There's a lot of social media activism, feminist activism that are empowering girls. Their lives are a sign of rising trends that have been happening for awhile. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers. What is being forfeited in this situation? I mean, when you think about it, in social media time, a couple of years is like 30 years. A: Well, it's a new kind of childhood. It was from talking to girls I knew through my daughter. So, social media can be a voice for positive things, too. I worry about the peer pressure for girls to post nude photos and for boys to accumulate as many as possible. Girls, more than anyone, feel like it's real and it can be so crushing sometimes. March 2010 Nancy Jo Sales Susanna Howe A lexis Neiers told cops that she and Nick Prugo had been drinking at Beso, a trendy bar-restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard, when Prugo got a call from Rachel Lee telling him to come and meet her. Is that an easy way people shut down that kind of outrage? A: I was shocked by the boy behavior. A lot of people want to only focus on the positive things. She went to a more elite private school, and found her voice through this activism. Instagram. You might wonder why that is, but it's not surprising in a culture that so values fame and wealth and materialism and the cultural sexualization of girls and women that has become so normalized.