Accountable the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives it changed Cover Image

Accountable [large print] : the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives it changed / Dashka Slater.

Summary:

"When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults--educators and parents--whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse. In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? And what does accountability even mean?"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9798885794893
Physical Description: 661 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	Ages 12-18 years Thorndike Press. Grades 7-9 Thorndike Press.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.1 13 522519.