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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Reyero García, David author Pattier Bocos, Daniel author García-Ramos, David author 2022-01-01 The object of this chapter is to explore the role that online social networks or so-called social media play in the formation of identity among twenty-first-century teenagers. McLuhan in a now famous phrase said that “We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us” (M. McLuhan, in The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, ed. by J. Stanlaw, (Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, 2020)). In that sense, social media, which function as a new tool for establishing interpersonal relations, are not merely a handy and neutral element among the several that form adolescent identity but mark that identity through their use. Having a handful of medium- to high-intensity relationships with friends that one sees periodically is not the same as having hundreds of relationships with persons with whom contact takes place only online and which absorb a great amount of time and preoccupation. The demands and codes of the latter are different from those required by face-to-face relationships, and the self-image that they help form is also different. Reyero, D., Pattier, D., & García-Ramos, D. (2022). Adolescence and Identity in the Twenty-First Century: Social Media as Spaces for Mimesis and Learning. En Identity in a Hyperconnected Society: Risks and Educative Proposals (pp. 75-93). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2_6 978-3-030-85788-2 978-3-030-85787-5 10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2_6 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104480 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2_6 https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/documentos/647346ddc0b3b1384998847f https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85159005611&origin=resultslist https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2 Adolescence and identity in the twenty-first century: social media as spaces for mimesis and learning