The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics
The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics
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2011
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D. Boyd
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Alice E. Marwick;D. Boyd
虽然青少年冲突并不是什么新鲜事，但今天的八卦，笑话和争论经常通过Formspring，Twitter和Facebook等社交媒体播放。虽然成年人经常用“欺凌”的语言来指代这些做法，但青少年更有可能将由此产生的小规模冲突及其数字痕迹称为“戏剧”。戏剧是一系列不同于欺凌、八卦和关系攻击的行为，它包含了这些行为的元素，但运作方式也相当独特。虽然戏剧并不是特别新，但网络动态以新的方式重新配置了戏剧的播放方式以及它对青少年的意义。在本文中，我们研究了美国青少年如何概念化戏剧，其关键组成部分，参与者的动机，从事它，以及它与网络技术的关系。通过六年的民族志田野调查，我们研究了戏剧对青少年的意义及其与可见性和隐私的关系。我们认为，主位使用“戏剧”允许青少年远离成年人可能概念化的欺凌行为。因此，他们可以保留代理权--并挽回面子--而不是将自己定位在受害者的叙述中。戏剧是一个性别化的过程，延续了传统的性别规范。它也反映了名人的话语，特别是肥皂剧和真人秀中常见的世俗人际冲突。对于青少年来说，像Facebook这样的网站允许在参与的观众面前进行类似的表演。了解“戏剧”是如何运作的是必要的，以认识到青少年对网络公众中的侵略，八卦和欺凌现实的自我防御。
While teenage conflict is nothing new, today’s gossip, jokes, and arguments often play out through social media like Formspring, Twitter, and Facebook. Although adults often refer to these practices with the language of “bullying,” teens are more likely to refer to the resultant skirmishes and their digital traces as “drama.” Drama is a performative set of actions distinct from bullying, gossip, and relational aggression, incorporating elements of them but also operating quite distinctly. While drama is not particularly new, networked dynamics reconfigure how drama plays out and what it means to teens in new ways. In this paper, we examine how American teens conceptualize drama, its key components, participant motivations for engaging in it, and its relationship to networked technologies. Drawing on six years of ethnographic fieldwork, we examine what drama means to teenagers and its relationship to visibility and privacy. We argue that the emic use of “drama” allows teens to distance themselves from practices which adults may conceptualize as bullying. As such, they can retain agency - and save face - rather than positioning themselves in a victim narrative. Drama is a gendered process that perpetrates conventional gender norms. It also reflects discourses of celebrity, particularly the mundane interpersonal conflict found on soap operas and reality television. For teens, sites like Facebook allow for similar performances in front of engaged audiences. Understanding how “drama” operates is necessary to recognize teens’ own defenses against the realities of aggression, gossip, and bullying in networked publics.