Digital Parent

There have been recent tragedies of girls murdering each other and being out right mean on social media. Nancy Jo Sales stopped by the Digital Parent Podcast to discuss her research on the secret online lives of teen girls and how their behavior plays out in the community. Nancy Jo Sales is an award winning journalist and author that has written for publications such as Vanity Fair, New York, Harper's Bazar and many more. She specializes in reporting on youth culture and pop culture icons.  Nancy's book, American Girls  The Secret Lives of Teenagers,  covered  the lives  of over 200 teenage girls across 10 states over 30 months. Nancy interviewed teen girls across all socioeconomic backgrounds. Nancy discovered issues of peer pressure, depression, acceptance, etc. On this episode of the Digital Parent Podcast, Nancy and I covers the issue of sexualization of young girls on social media and mainstream media. Nancy and I discuss this secretive or second world th