Stress 2.0 : social media overload among Swiss teenagers / Christoph Lutz, Giulia Ranzini, Miriam Meckel -- Gradations of disappearing digital divides among racially diverse middle school students / Shelia R. Cotten ... [et al.] -- Play to pay? : Adolescent video game play & STEM choice / Amanda J. Turner -- Should I text or should I call? : How college students navigate mediated connections with family / Carrie Anne Platt, Renee Bourdeaux, Nancy DiTunnariello -- Media choice and identity work : a case study of information communication technology use in a peer community / Airi Lampinen, Vilma Lehtinen, Coye Cheshire -- Promoting online safety among adolescents : enhancing coping self-efficacy and protective behaviors through enactive mastery / Julia Crouse Waddell ... [et al.] -- Hey kids, this is advertising : metaphors and promotional appeals in online advertisements for children / Debashis 'Deb' Aikat -- Cyberbullying : the social construction of a moral panic / Linda M. Waldron -- Tweens, cyberbullying, and moral reasoning : separating the upstanders from the bystanders / Erhardt Graeff.

Sponsored by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume brings together nine studies of mediated childhood and youth. The studies shed light on the emerging contours of young people's web engagements and social practices. More specifically, the volume contains research speaking to scholarship dealing with four key topics: digital differentiation, media use, social problems, and cyberbullying. In the first section, authors address timely topics about social inequalities arising from unequal web use among children and teens. In the following section, the contributions reveal decision making processes about negotiating mediated communication by college students in Finland and the United States. Subsequently, in section three, the research offers solutions to social problems created by online threats and ever expanding advertising targeting children. Finally, the volume closes with research on cyberbullying as a moral panic and upstanders who stand up to cyberbullies. Taken together, the contributions raise far-reaching questions about how childhood and young adulthood is mediated and shaped by digital experiences.

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