In this article, we propose that adolescents' online interactions are both a literal and a metaphoric screen for representing major adolescent developmental issues, such as sexuality and identity. Because of the public nature of Internet chat rooms , they provide an open window into the expression of adolescent concerns. Our study utilizes this…. We examined the search for partners by participants in two teen chat services having different ecologies. Over 12, utterances from monitored and unmonitored chat rooms were analyzed to assess online partner selection attempts and to see how such attempts may be influenced by the presence of an adult monitor.

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