Landscape : What Today’s Social Media World Looks Like for Tweens and Teens

Abstract

A few years ago, I was walking through the hallway of a middle school when Danielle stopped me. “You’re the lady who gave that presentation last week, aren’t you?” she asked me. Sitting on the floor of the school hallway, Danielle looked at me with knowing brown eyes. Her school uniform had an end-of-the day rumple to it, and her ash-blonde hair was pulled back loosely in a ponytail. It was a couple of weeks into the school year. I had given a presentation on back-to-school wellness to her and her middle school classmates the week before and had returned to give a corresponding talk to parents that evening.