American Girls
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  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804173186
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $45.00

American Girls

Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

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23 Feb 2016
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23 Feb 2016
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15 Feb 2017
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A New York Times Bestseller

From award-winning Vanity Fair columnist Nancy Jo Sales--a provocative, shocking and utterly of-the-moment portrait of a national crisis and a deeply reported investigation of how social media is devastating the lives of America's girls

A New York Times Bestseller

Award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales crisscrossed the country talking to more than two hundred girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen about their experiences online and off. They are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills.
 
The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media: Instagram, Whisper, Vine, Youtube, Kik, Ask.fm, Tinder. 

Provocative, explosive, and urgent, American Girls will ignite much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate the new social and sexual norms that govern their lives.
  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804173186
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $45.00
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Nancy Jo Sales

NANCY JO SALES is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications. She is known for her reporting on youth culture and crime and for her profiles of pop-culture icons. She won a 2011 Front Page Award for “Best Magazine Feature” and a 2010 Mirror Award for “Best Profile, Digital Media.” Her 2013 book, The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World, tells the true story behind the Sofia Coppola film The Bling Ring, which was based on Sales’s 2010 Vanity Fair piece “The Suspects Wore Louboutins.” Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sales graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1986. She became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 2000. She has a daughter, Zazie, and lives in the East Village in New York City.

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