Amber Collazo Question 1: In Danah Boyd’s article, “Why Do Teens Seem Strange Online?,” she explores how teenagers interact in the online world of social media. With the impact of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms, teens deal with the challenge of discovering themselves and others in an online setting. Drawing on sociological conceptual and theoretical arguments, Boyd offers insights into how young people navigate the online world. Boyd argues that teenagers have become very skilled at building their identities based on their social media appearances. Teenagers use social media to present a mature and different personality to multiple different audiences to try and discover their “true” personalities and to join …show more content…
Carla Pfeffer explores this in her article, "Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership," and studies why these women are attracted towards trans-masculine partners. Pfeffer argues that these women don’t want to be assumed to be straight to resist social norms. However, these women prefer to be presented as queer, which challenges the gender binary and the social understandings of an individual's gender and sexuality. Pfeffer talks in depth of the importance of identity negotiation. She proposes an argument that women who identify as queer engage in these identity negotiations that oppose and resist social norms. They negotiate their identity in ways that challenge the gender binary and challenge normative expectations of femininity and masculinity. The concept of social group membership is also discussed in the article. She argues that women who identify as queer often negotiate their group membership to resist heteronormativity. They seek out trans masculine partners to form relationships that challenge societal expectations of gender and sexuality. By doing so, they create alternative spaces that resist marginalization and reinforce their sense of