Sexting Motives and risk in online sexual self-presentation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Walrave, Michel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Van Ouytsel, Joris (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ponnet, Koen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Temple, Jeff R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
• Subjects: Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Gender identity.; Social psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Psychology, Applied.; Sexual Behavior.; Gender and Sexuality.; Psychosocial Studies.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Applied Psychology.

In the current debate around sexting, this book gives a nuanced account of motives, contexts and possible risks of intimate digital communication. The authors discuss how social media shapes new dating opportunities through apps and dating sites and how sexting fits within an individual's relat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Sharing and caring? The role of social media and privacy in sexting behaviour
• 2. Information disclosure, trust and health risks in online dating
• 3. A nuanced account: why do individuals engage in sexting?
• 4. Sexting from a health perspective: sexting, health and risky sexual behaviour
• 5. Parents' role in adolescents' sexting behaviour
• 6. Slut-shaming 2.0
• 7. A sexting 'panic'? What we learn from media coverage of sexting incidents
• 8. Sexting and the law.