Press Play with Madeleine Brand
American Girls and their Obsession with Social Media
By some estimates, American teenage girls spend anywhere from 9 to 11 hours a day consuming media. They send up to 100 texts a day. What is it that they’re seeing and sending? Vanity Fair reporter Nancy Jo Sales spent two and a half years interviewing teens across the country and wrote about it in her new book American Girls.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readBy some estimates, American teenage girls spend anywhere from 9 to 11 hours a day consuming media. They send up to 100 texts a day. What is it that they’re seeing and sending? Vanity Fair reporter Nancy Jo Sales spent two and a half years interviewing teens across the country and wrote about it in her new book American Girls. Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers.
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- 19:12Shakeup at South Coast Air Quality Management District
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