Online Peer Engagement in Adolescence

Nejra Van Zalk is a developmental psychologist at Imperial College London, focusing on human-technology interaction and its impacts on mental health across the life-span. Claire P. Monks is a developmental psychologist at the University of Greenwich, focusing on young people’s peer relationships.

1. Online Peer Engagement in Adolescence: Moving Away from "Good vs. Bad" to Brave New Frameworks (Nejra Van Zalk); 2. Buddies, Friends, and Followers: The evolution of online friendships (Joanna C. Yau and Stephanie M. Reich); 3. Adolescent online friendships: The poor get poorer, or the rich get richer? (Barry H. Schneider, Yair Amichai-Hamburger and Antonia Lonigro); 4. Is Online Peer Engagement Bad for All Youth All of the Time? The Benefits and Perils of Online Peer Interactions (Sonya Negriff and Kaveri Subrahmanyam); 5. Cyberbullying: A changing phenomenon (Jose A. Casas, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz and Claire P. Monks); 6. Links between Online Communication and Compulsive Internet Use in Adolescence: Is There a Reason to Worry? (Nejra Van Zalk and Seung Ha Lee); 7. Cyberdating Abuse And Sexting In Adolescence (Virginia Sánchez-Jiménez, Mónica Ojeda Pérez, Noelia Muñoz Fernández and Rosario Del Rey); 8. "Digital Adolescence": The Effects of Smartphones and Social Networking Technologies on Adolescents’ Well-Being (Yaakov Ophir, Hananel Rosenberg, Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler and Yair Amichai-Hamburger); 9. Applying Developmental Theory to Adolescent Peer Influence Processes in the Social Media Context (Sophia Choukas-Bradley and Jacqueline Nesi); 10. Adolescent Relationships in a Digital Age: What Do We Know and Where Does the Future Lie? (Claire P. Monks and Nejra Van Zalk)