Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent

by Amy Adele Hasinoff

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080629
• ISBN13: 9780252080623
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.8"