COMM 4602 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Governmentality, Safe Sex, Anarchism In Russia

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 4602
• Professor: Michael Audette- Longo

Document Summary

This article explores children"s use of mobile phones in relation to their intimate, sexual relationships and in their development of gendered sexual identities in their everyday lives. Implications of risk and mobile phones are reflected in current media discourse and contemporary public discussions. While the concept of risk remains at the centre of current sociological debate, children have only recently been seen as active social actors within social science. The article adopts a social constructivist perspective to explore the relationship between young people"s talk of sexuality and sexual acts in their discussions of mobile phone use, within the wider theoretical debates about risk and self-identity. This article examines how a group of young people use mobile phones, often alongside other technologies, for sexual purposes in their everyday relationships. The mobile phone emerges as a space for their developing sexuality and intimate relationships and in relation to their construction of a gendered, sexual self-identity.