Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the critical issues surrounding sexting
- Discusses disclosure, individual motivations, health risks, parental guidance
- Draws upon insights from psychology, communication, criminology and youth studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology (PASCY)
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Authors discuss how social media shape new dating opportunities through apps and dating sites, how sexting fits within individual’s relational and sexual development. They examine the relationships between sexting, health and sexual risk behaviours and focusing on adolescents, further highlight which role parents can play in relational and sexual education.
Chapters cover topics such as abusive sexting behaviours in the context of dating violence and slut shaming, media discourses concerning sexting and the legal framework in several countries that shape the context of sexting. This edited collection will be of great interest to academics and students of communication studies, psychology, health sciences and sociology, as well as policy makers and the general public interested in current debates on how social media are used for intimate communication.
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Keywords
- social media theory
- digital media discourses
- sexual development
- online disinhibition
- communication privacy management theory
- online dating theory
- slut-shaming
- media coverage of sexting
- sexting epidemic
- non-consensual dissemination of sexual images
- adolescent online sexual self-presentation
- gender and social media
- sexual behaviour
- gender and sexuality
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michel Walrave is a Professor at the Department of Communication Studies and Chairman of the Research Group MIOS, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Joris Van Ouytsel is a researcher at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Koen Ponnet is an Assistant Professor at the Ghent University. He also teaches at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Jeff R. Temple is a Professor and Director of Behavioral Health and Research in the Department of Ob/Gyn at UTMB Health, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexting
Book Subtitle: Motives and risk in online sexual self-presentation
Editors: Michel Walrave, Joris Van Ouytsel, Koen Ponnet, Jeff R. Temple
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71882-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71881-1Published: 27 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10126-8Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71882-8Published: 19 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2754
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2762
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 141
Topics: Sexual Behavior, Gender and Sexuality, Psychosocial Studies, Community and Environmental Psychology, Applied Psychology