Breaking the Silence: Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal

Daniel Cardoso, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

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Abstract

In this chapter we will focus on teens’ use of internet resources to look for
and find information related to sex and sexuality. To do that we will analyse
the results of two different projects carried out in two different, but culturally
similar, European countries: Italy and Portugal, by means of discourse analysis
of semi-structured interviews.
After a brief comparison of the contexts, we will analyse the roles of family,
school and peer groups as sources of sexual information for young people, and then
we will focus on the internet and the practices of using different sources by young
people. As the two main foci of analysis, we address how online search for information about sex and sexuality relate to other social groups and spaces that are part
of young people’s lives and how young people talk about the roles the internet
plays for them, including the negotiation of gender dynamics
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGender and Sexuality in the European Media
Subtitle of host publicationExploring Different Contexts Through Conceptualisations of Age
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Chapter3
Pages41-57
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781000383171
ISBN (Print)9780367407322
Publication statusPublished - 20 May 2021
Externally publishedYes

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