This article examines young people’s negotiation of their identities in relation to gender. We explore this through two important sites for young people—physical relationships in the school environment and mainstream social media sites (e.g., Instagram and Facebook)—with the suggestion that social media is an important site for young people that permits discursive and identity exploration. Specifically, we use a Bourdieusian framework to examine the flow of capital between fields as well as the identities that arise. We draw on the experiences of young people aged 15 or 16 from 70 semistructured interviews (33 young men, 37 young women; M age = 15.7) at three socioeconomically contrasting schools. We argue that for capital to be accrued, young people’s identities are largely required to be consistent between the physical and digital worlds. Moreover, these identities are heavily tied to polarized gender stereotypes of heightened masculinities and femininities. Thus, a young person’s popularity (reinforced in both the fields of social media and schooling) is partly maintained by the negotiation of their gendered body and a gendered identity.

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“这就是您要做的事”：物理和数字领域，以及年轻人的性别身份谈判的资金流向

本文探讨了年轻人就性别身份进行的谈判。我们通过两个针对年轻人的重要站点（学校环境中的身体关系和主流社交媒体站点（例如，Instagram和Facebook））来探索这一点，并建议社交媒体是年轻人的重要站点，允许进行话语和身份探索。具体来说，我们使用布迪厄斯（Bourdieusian）框架来检查领域之间的资本流动以及由此产生的身份。我们从三所社会经济差异较大的学校中，通过70次半结构式访谈（33名男性，37名年轻女性； M年龄= 15.7）中的15岁或16岁年轻人的经验进行了总结。我们认为，要积累资本，很大程度上需要使年轻人的身份在物理世界和数字世界之间保持一致。而且，这些身份与男性气概和女性气质的两极分化成见密切相关。因此，年轻人的受欢迎程度（在社交媒体和学校教育领域都得到了加强）在一定程度上是通过协商他们的性别和性别身份来维持的。