Media reports frequently frame youth as foolish but also uniquely vulnerable when it comes to social media. However, adult framings of teen online activities and teens’ reported experiences regularly differ due to the privileging of adult concerns. In this paper, we take a youth-centered approach to teen online activities exploring the constitutive processes of social media and the micro-, meso-, and macro-level discourses associated with youth social media use. Through in-depth interviews with 55 culturally and socio-economically diverse young people, we examine the contradictions and tensions that organize teens’ experiences online, as well as the discursive resources they draw on to navigate online life. Our research showcases a multi-level discursive analysis that enables scholars to see how discourses intertwine to organize communication online, foregrounding theoretical implications about how young people resist and reify certain discourses about social media, as well as how identity and imagined audiences are maintained online.

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社交媒体话语如何组织在线交流：对青少年在线体验中的紧张和矛盾的多层次话语分析

媒体报道经常将年轻人描述为愚蠢，但在社交媒体方面也非常脆弱。然而，由于成人关注的特权，青少年在线活动的成人框架和青少年报告的体验经常不同。在本文中，我们对青少年在线活动采取以青少年为中心的方法，探索社交媒体的构成过程以及与青少年社交媒体使用相关的微观、中观和宏观层面的话语。通过对 55 名文化和社会经济多元化的年轻人的深入采访，我们研究了组织青少年在线体验的矛盾和紧张局势，以及他们为浏览在线生活所利用的话语资源。