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Youth 2.0: Social Media and Adolescence

Connecting, Sharing and Empowering

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Editors:
  1. Michel Walrave

    1. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  2. Koen Ponnet

    1. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  3. Ellen Vanderhoven

    1. Department of Edu Studies & iMinds-MICT, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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  4. Jacques Haers

    1. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  5. Barbara Segaert

    1. University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  • Combines opportunities, risks and empowering initiatives with regard to social network sites of children and adolescents in one volume

  • Presents information on how young people use social network sites to express and explore their developing identity

  • The multidisciplinary approach perspective reveals different relevant questions, several relevant theoretical contributions and a variety of practical solutions

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Identity: Online Identity Construction and Expression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Who Do You Think You Are? Examining the Off/Online Identities of Adolescents Using a Social Networking Site

      • Janette Hughes, Laura Morrison, Stephanie Thompson
      Pages 3-19

    3. An ‘Open Source’ Networked Identity. On Young People’s Construction and Co-construction of Identity on Social Network Sites

      • Malene Charlotte Larsen
      Pages 21-39

    4. Profile Image: Ways of Self-(re-)presentation on the Facebook Social Network

      • Rocío Rueda-Ortiz, Diana Giraldo
      Pages 41-60

    5. Digital Divides in the Era of Widespread Internet Access: Migrant Youth Negotiating Hierarchies in Digital Culture

      • Koen Leurs
      Pages 61-78

    6. Agentive Students Using Social Media – Spatial Positionings and Engagement in Space2cre8

      • Ola Erstad
      Pages 79-99

  3. Privacy: Balancing Self-disclosure & Privacy Concerns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Paradoxes of Online Privacy

      • Sabine Trepte
      Pages 103-115

    3. The Role of Informational Norms on Social Network Sites

      • Wouter Martinus Petrus Steijn
      Pages 117-137

    4. iDisclose: Applications of Privacy Management Theory to Children, Adolescents and Emerging Adults

      • Stephen Cory Robinson
      Pages 139-157

  4. Risks & Empowerment: Supporting & Empowering Youth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Social Relations: Exploring How Youth Use Social Media to Communicate Signs and Symptoms of Depression and Suicidal Ideation

      • Jennifer L. Laffier
      Pages 161-178

    3. Compulsive Use of Social Networking Sites Among Secondary School Adolescents in Belgium

      • Jolien Vangeel, Rozane De Cock, Annabelle Klein, Pascal Minotte, Omar Rosas, Gert-Jan Meerkerk
      Pages 179-191

    4. (Cyber)bullying Perpetration as an Impulsive, Angry Reaction Following (Cyber)bullying Victimisation?

      • Sara Pabian, Heidi Vandebosch
      Pages 193-209

    5. Changing Unsafe Behaviour on Social Network Sites. Collaborative Learning vs. Individual Reflection

      • Ellen Vanderhoven, Tammy Schellens, Martin Valcke
      Pages 211-226

    6. Empowering Children Through Labelling in Social Networks: Illusion or Solution?

      • Ellen Wauters, Eva Lievens, Peggy Valcke
      Pages 227-247

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255
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About this book

This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which arise from children’s and adolescents’ social media use. It investigates the following main themes, from a multidisciplinary perspective: identity, privacy, risks and empowerment. Social media have become an integral part of young people’s lives. While social media offer adolescents opportunities for identity and relational development, adolescents might also be confronted with some threats. The first part of this book deals with how young people use social media to express their developing identity. The second part revolves around the disclosure of personal information on social network sites, and concentrates on the tension between online self-disclosure and privacy. The final part deepens specific online risks young people are confronted with and suggests solutions by describing how children and adolescents can be empowered to cope with online risks. By emphasizing these different, but intertwined topics, this book provides a unique overview of research resulting from different academic disciplines such as Communication Studies, Education, Psychology and Law. The outstanding researchers that contribute to the different chapters apply relevant theories, report on topical research, discuss practical solutions and reveal important emerging issues that could lead future research agendas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet

  • Department of Edu Studies & iMinds-MICT, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Ellen Vanderhoven

  • KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Jacques Haers

  • University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Barbara Segaert

About the editors

Michel Walrave is a professor at the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Antwerp. He is responsible for the research group MIOS which conducts research on, amongst others, young people's uses of digital technologies. His research is centered around online self-disclosure and privacy. He investigates adolescents’ and adults’ online disclosure of personal information to companies and in interpersonal communication.


Koen Ponnet is an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Antwerp and the Higher Institute for Family Sciences (Odisee). His main research interests are the determinants of risk and problem behaviour of adolescents and adults, both off-line and on-line. In his research he pays attention to the situation of vulnerable groups, like those who are at risk of Poverty.


Ellen Vanderhoven obtained a PhD in Educational Sciences at Ghent University and currently works as a senior researcher at iMinds-MICT, a research group at the Department of Communication Studies at Ghent University. She specialises in research concerning both education about technology (media literacy) and technology for education (educational technology). In both domains, her expertise lies in the design of educational materials, including evaluation studies in authentic classroom settings.


Jacques Haers SJ studied mathematics (Catholic University of Leuven), philosophy (Catholic University of Leuven; Hochschule für Philosophie, München) and theology (Catholic University of Leuven; Oxford University). He is a professor of systematic theology and liberation theologies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (Catholic University of Leuven), where he also chairs the Centre for Liberation Theologies. He also heads the University Parish at the Catholic University of Leuven. 


Barbara Segaert holds a master diploma in Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies and Arab Philology (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium and a master in the Social Sciences (Open University), UK. Since 2002 she is scientific coordinator at the University Centre Saint Ignatius Antwerp where she develops academic programmes on various topics of relevance to contemporary society.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Youth 2.0: Social Media and Adolescence

  • Book Subtitle: Connecting, Sharing and Empowering

  • Editors: Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet, Ellen Vanderhoven, Jacques Haers, Barbara Segaert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27893-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27891-9Published: 09 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80235-0Published: 26 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27893-3Published: 28 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 255

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Media Sociology, Educational Policy and Politics, Developmental Psychology, Communication Studies, Educational Psychology

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