Talking Adolescence
Talking Adolescence by Angie Williams is a 2005 Society & Culture book written by TED speaker Crispin Thurlow, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Why you should embrace mediocrity" (2023), 768K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 18 years before the talk.
- Edition: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005 · 292 pages
The paired TED talk
Why you should embrace mediocrity (2023), the TED talk by Crispin Thurlow.
From the publisher
As a major economic, relational, and identity resource, communication is crucial to the well-being and success of young people. And yet adolescents are typically characterized in the media as inadequate communicators, whose language practices adults bemoan as unintelligible and deleterious. In looking to critique these pervasive stereotypes, the editors of Talking Adolescence have brought together some of the world's leading experts on youth and adolescence, whose interdisciplinary research demonstrates how communication powerfully structures and meaningfully facilitates the lives of young people. Adding to the growing literature on intergenerational and lifespan communication, Talking Adolescence is the first substantive volume devoted to young people.