
Scripting Adolescent Romance
Adolescents Talk about Romantic Relationships and Media's Sexual Scripts
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 19. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-4331-2488-4 (ISBN)
Description
Adolescents and emerging adults today spend an estimated seven hours daily attending to media. The media teens attend to commonly present relationships between men and women as a "game" or "competition" in which women seduce through their physical appearance and the masculinity of men is defined through sexual conquest. A growing body of research suggests that viewing this sexualized media may contribute to adolescents' and emerging adults' understanding of and behaviors around romantic and sexual relationships. Using social cognitive theory of gender development, scripting theory, and heterosexual script theory as a framework, Scripting Adolescent Romance presents methods and analyses of data from in-depth interviews with 16 high school and young college students, and focus groups with over 100 individuals in this age group. Findings provide a rarely seen view inside youths' private spaces-their bedrooms and their social media spaces. In often highly-personal conversations, youth provide in-depth information about how they understand and navigate virginity, romantic relationships, sexual situations, and interpersonal violence. Their discussions of "Netflix and chill," Facebook stalking, and the scorecard script illuminate aspects of romance and sex that may be uniquely characteristic of today's young people. This book is a must-read for parents of adolescents, and promises to be an enjoyable, insightful text for classes about media effects, adolescent development, gender roles, and sexual health.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
18 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-2488-4 (9781433124884)
DOI
10.3726/b13316
Schweitzer Classification
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Stacey J.T. Hust | Kathleen Boyce Rodgers
Scripting Adolescent Romance
Adolescents Talk about Romantic Relationships and Media's Sexual Scripts
E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€57.49
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Stacey J.T. Hust | Kathleen Boyce Rodgers
Scripting Adolescent Romance
Adolescents Talk about Romantic Relationships and Media's Sexual Scripts
E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€57.49
Available for download

Stacey J.T. Hust | Kathleen Boyce Rodgers
Scripting Adolescent Romance
Adolescents Talk about Romantic Relationships and Media's Sexual Scripts
Book
02/2018
Peter Lang Verlag
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Persons
Stacey J.T. Hust (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an associate professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Kathleen Boyce Rodgers (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development at Washington State University. Hust and Rodgers were the 2014 recipients of the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. They also earned one of two National Council on Family Relations Innovation Grants in 2014.
Content
List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgments - Introduction and Background - Youths' Personal Spaces - Gender, Femininity and Masculinity - Virginity: Abstinence and Urgency - Romantic Relationships: Navigation and Expectation - Sexual Activity, the Sexual Double Standard, and the Scorecard Script - Rape Myths, Sexual Coercion, and Dating Violence - Discussion and Implications of Findings - Discussion Questions - Appendix A: Participant Biographies - Appendix B: Mediography - Index.