Sexting

Sexting is a variant of texting and refers to the practice of sending sexually explicit images and texts using mobile phones and Internet platforms. Sexting is characterized by brevity and immediacy. In the new millennium teenagers sexting, and the extent to which some of these sexts could be considered child pornography, was widely covered in the U.S. media. Although sexting embodies a new kind of media production, it is also an activity that rearticulates and refashions established practices mediating personally intimate representations of sexuality.