TY - JOUR
T1 - 'And what are you reading, miss? Oh, it is only a website'
T2 - The new media and the pedagogical possibilities of digital culture as a South African 'teen guide' to HIV/AIDS and STDs
AU - Mitchell, Claudia
AU - Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline
AU - Pithouse, Kathleen
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31 While it is beyond the scope of this article to expand on the idea of girls as producers within digital technology, we are interested in Stern's (op. cit.) study of the personal World Wide Web (WWW) home pages of ten adolescent girls. Stern's study reveals that through the construction of their home pages, the girls created 'both personal and public records' (p. 246). The home pages were personal in the sense that they were 'self-directed, self-clarifying, and self-expressive' and public because of 'the broadly accessible nature of the WWW' (ibid). Stern's study also suggests that it was 'the electronic, anonymous, and remote format of [the] home pages' that enabled these teenaged girls to feel comfortable with commu nicating aspects of their private selves (pp. 247-248). See also Mitchell and Reid-Walsh, 2002 for a further discussion of girls' websites including references to Seventeen (chapter 6). New work in this area is emerging from Digital Girls: From Play to Policy, a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Contact details: Sandra Weber, Concordia Univer sity, 1499 de Maisonneuve St. Montreal, Quebec, Canada).
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This article comes out of a recognition that access to information on sexuality and HIV and AIDS is all part of a survival strategy for young people. This is particularly an issue in South Africa where in some parts of the country the HIV infection rate for girls and young women is between 20 and 30 per cent, and where they are 3 or 4 more times likely than young men of the same age to be infected with AIDS. While the internet is clearly not the only channel to pursue within AIDS prevention programming, the idea of the new media as social intervention, as we outline here in our analysis of the lovelife website and the Seventeen website, opens up the possibilities for private information within public spaces.
AB - This article comes out of a recognition that access to information on sexuality and HIV and AIDS is all part of a survival strategy for young people. This is particularly an issue in South Africa where in some parts of the country the HIV infection rate for girls and young women is between 20 and 30 per cent, and where they are 3 or 4 more times likely than young men of the same age to be infected with AIDS. While the internet is clearly not the only channel to pursue within AIDS prevention programming, the idea of the new media as social intervention, as we outline here in our analysis of the lovelife website and the Seventeen website, opens up the possibilities for private information within public spaces.
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U2 - 10.1177/135485650401000106
DO - 10.1177/135485650401000106
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SN - 1354-8565
VL - 10
SP - 80
EP - 92
JO - Convergence
JF - Convergence
IS - 1
ER -