Growing Up on Facebook [Book Review]

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Corey Jay Liberman

Marymount Manhattan College (Correspondence: cliberman@mmm.edu)

Citation: Liberman, C.J. (2021). Growing up on Facebook [Book Review]. Journal of Communication Technology, 4(1), 101-105. https://doi.org/10.51548/joctec-2021-006

Abstract: Growing Up on Facebook, authored by Brady Robards and Sian Lincoln, exposes the reader to the role of Computer-Mediated Communication in creating, recreating, and altering the online identities of users. Highlighting the role of self in intimate relationships, professional relationships, and family relationships, Robards and Lincoln discuss such identity markers as friend requests, postings of photos, political discourse, and the creation of profiles, providing the fields of communication, sociology, and social psychology with an overview of the antecedents, processes, and effects of the social construction of self on Facebook.