TAILIEUCHUNG - Connecting Developmental Constructions to the Internet: Identity Presentation and Sexual Exploration in Online Teen Chat Rooms

The authors examined the online construction of identity and sexuality in a large sample of conversations from monitored and unmonitored teen chat rooms. More than half of the 583 participants (identified by a distinct screen name) communicated identity information, most frequently gender. In this way, participants compensated for the text-based chat environment by providing information about themselves that would be visible and obvious in face-to-face communication. Sexual themes constituted 5% of all utterances (1 sexual comment per minute); bad or obscene language constituted 3% of the sample (1 obscenity every 2 minutes). Participants who self-identified as female produced more implicit sexual communication, participants who self-identified as male. | Developmental Psychology 2006 Vol. 42 No. 3 395-406 Copyright 2006 by the American Psychological Association 0012-1649 06 DOI Connecting Developmental Constructions to the Internet Identity Presentation and Sexual Exploration in Online Teen Chat Rooms Kaveri Subrahmanyam California State University Los Angeles and University of California Los Angeles David Smahel Masaryk University Brno and University of California Los Angeles Patricia Greenfield University of California Los Angeles The authors examined the online construction of identity and sexuality in a large sample of conversations from monitored and unmonitored teen chat rooms. More than half of the 583 participants identified by a distinct screen name communicated identity information most frequently gender. In this way participants compensated for the text-based chat environment by providing information about themselves that would be visible and obvious in face-to-face communication. Sexual themes constituted 5 of all utterances 1 sexual comment per minute bad or obscene language constituted 3 of the sample 1 obscenity every 2 minutes . Participants who self-identified as female produced more implicit sexual communication participants who self-identified as male produced more explicit sexual communication. The protected environment of monitored chat hosts who enforce basic behavioral rules contained an environment with less explicit sexuality and fewer obscenities than the freer environment of unmonitored chat. These differences were attributable both to the monitoring process itself and to the differing populations attracted to each type of chat room monitored more participants self-identified as younger and female unmonitored more participants self-identified as older and male . Keywords Internet online chat rooms adolescence identity sexual exploration Much attention has been paid to the Internet as a learning environment. Much less is known about the Internet as a social

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