Young people's sexting is an area of increasing concern amongst parents, educationalists and policy makers, yet little research has been conducted with young people themselves to explore their perspectives on the support they need to navigate relationships in the new digital media landscape. To address this absence, an inter-disciplinary team of researchers undertook a participatory study with students, aged 13 to 15, in a UK secondary school. This paper outlines key study findings, including young people's views on sexting, their recommendations for improved education around sexting in schools, their preferred sources of support, and their perspectives on the way adults should respond to young people's sexting. Findings indicate that sexting education needs to be developed within the context of wider relationship issues, such as gender, power dynamics and trust between peers, and improved communication between students and teachers or other responsible adults. Findings may be used to consider ways of designing and communicating messages around sexting to young people within and beyond educational settings.

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This work is highly technical in places, but worth persevering with. It takes some, usually amiable, side-swipes at key aspects of uncongenial theoretical traditions, like phenomenology and actor network theory. Overall, it provides a much enhanced understanding of the nature and scope of tacit knowledge and, for me, a welcome sociological statement of the importance and irreducibility of collective knowledge.

and disjunctions) between the figuring of looking and 'to-be-looked-at-ness', voyeurism and exhibitionism, and the mediatization of identity. Here again, those hyperlinks keep popping up, from paparazzi to counterterrorism and beyond. It's a book that's absolutely jam packed, yet still leaves room for the reader to add in more.This shouldn't be taken as a criticism, of course. It's more a case of the way this book keeps the reader interested, the way its style encourages the making of connections. Trying to figure out how to summarize this effect, I can only describe it as Benjaminian, and indeed Walt is a constant presence (along with other urbanists' favourites such as Simmel and Kracauer, and reflexive modernists like Lash). Writing with effusiveness uncharacteristic of back-cover blurbs on academic tomes, James Donald says 'I love this book'. But I will end by echoing his praise, and make a promise to readers: you will love The Media City, too.