Accountable
The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Published on 18. September 2023
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-374-31434-7 (ISBN)
Description
Not funny. When a high schooler started a private Instagram that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humour. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew.
No one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse. In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? And what does accountability even mean?
No one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse. In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? And what does accountability even mean?
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 12 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-31434-7 (9780374314347)
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Dashka Slater
Accountable
The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
E-Book
08/2023
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
€13.99
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Person
Dashka Slater is the New York Times-bestselling author of The 57 Bus, which won the Stonewall Book Award and was a YALSA nonfiction finalist. Her fiction includes The Book of Fatal Errors, which was an Amazon Best Book of the Month; the picture book Escargot, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award; Baby Shoes; The Antlered Ship, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection and received four starred reviews; and Dangerously Ever After. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones. She lives in California. Visit her at dashkaslater.com.