The short answer is: it depends. Certain chapters will be more or less relevant. For example, the section on race and inequality is very American-centric but the discussion of digital natives and addiction is not. The issues of bullying and privacy are somewhere in-between. Much to my surprise, one of the first requests for doing a translation is Mandarin and my hunch was that China is the place where this is least relevant. But maybe not?
On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:44 AM, Yishay Mor wrote: > Hey danah - congratulations! Looks like a major achievement and an important > read. FWIW, I tweeted it. Quick question: how relevant do you think this book > would be for parents outside the US? > > cheers, > > Yishay > > ___________________________ > http://www.yishaymor.org > learning; design; technology; research > > > On 28 January 2014 20:12, danah boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends & Colleagues - > > In less than a month, my new book - "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of > Networked Teens" (see: http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/ ) - will be > published. This is the product of ten years worth of research into how > social media has inflected American teen life. I'm writing today in the > hopes that you might consider pre-ordering a copy (or two <grin>). This book > (published by Yale University Press) is a cross trade/academic book. > Pre-sales and first week sales significantly affect how a trade book is > marketed and distributed. Even though this book is based on grounded data, > I've written it to be publicly accessible in the hopes that parents, > educators, journalists, and policy makers will read it and reconsider their > attitude towards technology and teen practices. The book covers everything > from addiction, bullying, and online safety to privacy, inequality, and the > digital natives debate. I suspect that the chapter on privacy might be of > particular interest to the folks on this list. > > If you have the financial wherewithal to buy a copy, I'd be super grateful. > If you don't, I *totally* understand. Either way, I'd be super super super > appreciative if you could help me get the word out about the book. I'm really > hoping that this book will alter the public dialogue about teen use of social > media. > > You can pre-order it at: > - Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook): > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300166311/apophenia-20 > - Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780300166316-0 > - Yale University Press: > http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316 > > Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting. > > {{hug}} > > danah > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. ------ My New Book: "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" Pre-Order it now! http://bit.ly/dmbItsComplicated (pretty please) "taken out of context / i must seem so strange" -- ani http://www.danah.org/ || @zephoria
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