Adolescents and Their
Social Media Narratives
A DIGITAL COMING OF AGE
In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives, Walsh specifically explores how social media impacts teenagers’ personal development. Indeed, through unique empirical data, Walsh presents an aspect of teen media use that is not often documented in the press – the seemingly deep and meaningful process of evaluating the self visually in an attempt to reconcile their presentation with their internal “self-story”. Nevertheless, as Walsh outlines, this is not a process without its challenges.
