In Nancy Jo Sales' 2015 article on Tinder in Vanity Fair, she spoke of a “Dating Apocalypse” and launched a series of testy exchanges with the dating app's CEO, Sean Rad. Undaunted, Sales, known for her stories on celebrity, youth culture, and crime, has continued to explore the ways social media has fundamentally changed how, and how fast, girls grow up today. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers casts a sympathetic—but critical—eye on this new self-mediating world. WBEZ host Greta Johnsen joins Sales for an examination of what it means to be a girl today.

This program was recorded on October 29, 2016 as part of Chicago Humanities Festival's Fallfest/16: Speed.

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