Aims and scope The usage of mobile phones and the internet by young people has
increased rapidly in the past decade, approaching saturation by middle childhood in …

This article explores gender inequities and sexual double standards in teens' digital image
exchange, drawing on a UK qualitative research project on youth 'sexting'. We develop a …

What is sexting? Sexting has been defined as the “exchange of sexual messages or images”
and “creating, sharing and forwarding sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images”(see …

This study examines the relational, normative, gender, and age dynamics of adolescent
sexting in the USA using open-ended questionnaires. Girls in the study were no more likely …

This study investigates the structural relationship between two types of cyberaggression:
cyberhate and cyberbullying. Cyberhate is online hate speech that attacks collective …

Although research findings have been equivocal as to whether the use of social networking
sites (SNSs) increases experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS …

Adolescent sexting–the electronic swapping of sexually intimate texts or images–has
attracted significant media and policy attention. However, questions remain about the …

This article explores young people's experiences of sending and receiving sexual images
and text messages (sexting) within their interpersonal relationships and the contexts in …

Despite growing research interest in sexting, not much is known about individual and
country differences in engaging in sexting. Therefore, the aims of this study were to …

After a decade or more in which research has examined the opportunities and risks
encountered by children on the internet, this article assesses the contribution and …