Sexting - Motives and risk in online sexual self-presentation

In the current debate around sexting, this book gives a nuanced account of motives, contexts and possible risks of intimate digital communication.    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.

 
 

List of contents

1. Sharing and caring?  The role of social media and privacy in sexting behaviour.- 2. Information disclosure, trust and health risks in online dating.- 3. A nuanced account: why do individuals engage in sexting?.- 4. Sexting from a health perspective: sexting, health and risky sexual behaviour.- 5. Parents' role in adolescents' sexting behaviour.- 6. Slut-shaming 2.0.- 7. A sexting 'panic'? What we learn from media coverage of sexting incidents.- 8. Sexting and the law.

About the author

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.

Summary

In the current debate around sexting, this book gives a nuanced account of motives, contexts and possible risks of intimate digital communication.    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.

 
 

Product details

• Assisted by: Joris van Ouytsel (Editor), Koen Ponnet (Editor), Koen Ponnet et al (Editor), Jeff Temple (Editor), Jeff R. Temple (Editor), Jori Van Ouytsel (Editor), Joris Van Ouytsel (Editor), Michel Walrave (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319718811
• ISBN: 978-3-31-971881-1
• No. of pages: 141
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 219 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 305 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 141 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology; Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychologie, C, Gender Studies, Psychology, Social Psychology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social, group or collective psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Gender identity, Gender studies, gender groups, Environmental Psychology, Applied Psychology, Psychology, Applied, Psychology of gender, Gender and Sexuality, Psychosocial Studies, Sexual psychology, Sexual Behavior, Behavioral Neuroscience