Contents

• Playspaces, childhood, and videogames / Shanly Dixon and Sandra Weber
• "I’m the one who makes the Lego racers go" : studying virtual and actual play / Seth Giddings
• Technology in the everyday lives of "tweens" / Sandra Weber, with Julia Weber
• The girls’ room : negotiating schoolyard friendships online / Kelly Boudreau
• "I think we must be normal … there are too many of us for this to be abnormal!!!" : girls creating identity and forming community in pro-ana/mia websites / Michele Polak
• Private writing in public spaces : girls’ blogs and shifting boundaries / Brandi Bell
• Consuming fashion and producing meaning through online paper dolls / Rebekah Willett
• Producing gender in digital interactions : what young people set out to achieve through computer game design / Caroline Pelletier
• Contexts, pleasures, and preferences : girls playing computer games / Diane Carr
• Adolescent girls’ expression on web home pages : spirited, somber, and self-conscious sites / Susannah R. Stern
• Playing at and with popular teen culture on "girl" websites : the case of Alice / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
• Girl culture and digital technology in the age of AIDS / Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
• New girl (and new boy) at the internet café : digital divides/ digital futures / Claudia Mitchell and Grace Sokoya
• Contested spaces : protecting or inhibiting girls online / Leslie Regan Shade
• Reviewing young people’s engagement with technology / Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon