How Social Media is Transforming the Lives of Teen Girls

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 25, 2016

Journalist Nancy Jo Sales  interviewed over 200 girls across the country to find out how technology, social media and the internet are changing adolescence and creating new social norms. In American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers she reveals how young women are influenced by a hypersexualized internet culture which affects their intellectual development and communication skills.

Events: Nancy Jo Sales will be speaking and signing copies of her book at Books & Greetings in Northvale, NJ (271 Livingston Street) on Thursday, May 5 at 7:00 p.m. 

She'll also be speaking at New Canaan High School in New Canaan, CT on Wednesday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m. 

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