Teenagers Have A Right To Privacy Summary

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Barwick, Melanie. "Teens Have a Right to Privacy from Parents." Teens and Privacy, edited by Noël Merino, Greenhaven Press, 2011. Current Controversies. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Originally published as "To Peek or Not to Peek: Privacy in the Time of Social Media," CBC News, 2009. Barwick’s viewpoint offers an intersection of adolescence and social media in a teenager's life. In our society of technology, teenagers pull away from reality and push into the world of virtuality because they will have a sense of autonomy to express what they want. As a result, they spend more time alone in their rooms and there are more places for them to enact their privacy needs. Cingel, Drew P., et al. "Predicting social networking site use and online …show more content…

The results imply that ownership of mobile technologies, such as smartphones and iPads, may be more predictive of social networking site use and online communication practices than general ownership of technology. Also, it goes in detail about how teenagers are attracted to social networks such as Facebook, because adolescents who own smartphones engage in social media than those who share regular cell phones or those who do not have access to a cell phone. Armitage, Blair. "Social media, free speech and parliamentary service." Canadian Parliamentary Review, Winter 2012, p. 36+. Academic OneFile. Blair's academic journal examines ways social media can be considered as free speech and parliamentary service. In other words, teenagers uses social media as a gateway to enact their personal needs, such as self-expression, to become their true self. Living in a world of technology, teenagers have access to the media. Because they are born in the tech age, they find their individuality in which others who were born in other eras can express themselves through the art, dance, and music without the use of

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