Talking Adolescence

Contents: Crispin Thurlow: Deconstructing adolescent communication – Johanna Wyn: Youth in the media: Adult stereotypes of young people – Peter Garrett/Angie Williams: Adults’ perceptions of communication with young people – Crispin Thurlow/Alice Marwick: From apprehension to awareness: Toward more critical understandings of young people’s communication experiences – Cynthia Carter/Stuart Allan: Hearing their voices: Young people, citizenship and online news – Penelope Eckert: Stylistic practice and the adolescent social order – Vivian de Klerk: Slang and swearing as markers of inclusion and exclusion in adolescence – Lauren Berger/Dana McMakin/Wyndol Furman: The language of love: Romantic relationships in adolescence – Sarah O’Flynn: Ticket to a Queer planet? Communication issues affecting young lesbian and gay people – Leo Hendry/Marion Kloep: ‘Talkin’, doin’ and bein’ with friends’: Leisure and communication in adolescence – Susan McKay/ Crispin Thurlow/Heather Toomey Zimmerman: Wired whizzes or techno-slaves? Young people and their emergent communication technologies – Patricia Noller: Communication with parents and other family members: The implications of family process for young people’s well-being – John Drury: Young people’s communication with adults in the institutional order – Joseph Chesebro: In the classroom: Instructional communication with young people – Susan McKay: Communication and ‘risky’ behavior in adolescence.