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Adolescence and identity in the twenty-first century: social media as spaces for mimesis and learning Reyero García, David Pattier Bocos, Daniel García-Ramos, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, José Manuel 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. 2024-05-28T08:50:19Z 2024-05-28T08:50:19Z 2024-05-28T08:50:19Z 2022-01-01 book part https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104480 XXXX-XXXX 10.1007/978-3-030-85788-2_6 eng 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ restricted access Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Springer Nature Switzerland AG