Heres a video on Unwanted Sexual Attention, which is what happened to Isabel. This video is from the 80's teaching about sexual harassment and unwanted attention.

Object Lessons: Romance, Violation, and Female Adolescent Desire By Beborah L. Tolman

I think what Deborah Tolman was trying to say in this article is how young girls are afraid to talk about their sexuality.It is a difficult subject to discuss. The girl Isabel that she interviewed, who is 16, has experienced a lot at her age, and is afraid to think about her sexuality sometimes, because she doesn't know what to think about love and sex, but she knows that she is just trying to figure things out about herself. 

Isabel told Deborah many stories about what has happened to her over the years. These stories were hard to Isabel to talk about, but it made her think more about things, and why she is so afraid to discuss why she hasn't been in a relationship, and is afraid to talk about sex. Also, how Isabel thinks, and views herself as sexy. Isabel said," Oh, it's so wonderful. And sometimes, like once in awhile, on a really good day, when I'm in a very good mood, it happens in real life, where I just feel sexy, and I know everybody must be just looking at me like, 'Oh wow, she's so beautiful.' Or like 'Oh my gosh, she must have 30 boyfriends outside of school'(...)." Isabel gets confident sometimes about herself, but that can be tough for her most times.

I found this text to be very interesting. Hearing what Isabel went through, and how she is trying to be confident with herself,after the unwanted attention must have been tough for her. She is trying really hard to make her self feel confident, and not be afraid of herself wanting to express her sexuality.

New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture by Vincent Miller

The things that I understand in this article is that the internet affects us more than we think it does. It is world wide, and we can express ourselves in many ways with it. There is writing blogs,  and using Facebook, Myspace, DevianArt. There is just so many different things. I agree, that these networks do change the way that we all communicate, but they also allow us to express ourselves in a way too. Vincent Miller says,"One aspect which is particularly important here is the assertion that self-disclosure  becomes increasingly important as a means to gain trust and achieve authentic but ( contingent) relationships with others. Giddens argues that late modern subjects gravitate towards relationships which engender trust through constant communication and reflex- ive practice. In other words, we crave relationships that allow us to open up to others, and not just in the romantic sense, because in late modernity, the demand for intimacy becomes ‘virtually compulsive’. " I think what he means when he says this is that we like to constantly communicate with people. With the internet now days, communicating is so much easier than it ever was before.

Heres this really funny video about Facebook.

This article relates back to the McMillian and Morrison article, about the use of internet, and how much it affects us.