Social Problem

Sonia Livingstone

Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression
Article (Accepted version) (Refereed)
Original citation: Livingstone, Sonia (2008) Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression. New media & society, 10 (3). pp. 393-411 DOI: 10.1177/1461444808089415 © 2008 SAGE Publications This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27072/ Available in LSE Research Online: February 2010 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s final manuscript accepted version of the journal article, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer review process. Some differences between this version and the published version may remain. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it.

Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: Teenagers’ use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression Sonia Livingstone Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK Tel. [phone] Fax [phone] Email [e-mail]

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