Aimee Rickman

Aimee Rickman is a Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, Fresno, within the College of Arts and Humanities. Her research explores the intersection of youth, technology, culture, identity, and gender, with a focus on marginalized adolescents' use of social media to navigate offline challenges.

Her scholarly work includes the ethnographic book Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration (Lexington, 2018), which examines how rural teenaged women leverage digital spaces to renegotiate societal constraints. She leads the CSUF US Millennials: Imaginaries and Realities Faculty Learning Community (FLC) and directs the Youth + Social Media Research Lab.

Her research interests are rooted in critical interdisciplinary analysis of youth technological engagement, media migration, and the cultural construction of adolescence within historical, economic, and material contexts.

The book Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration (2018) reflects her focus on digital identity formation, adolescent development, and the sociocultural dynamics of media migration among marginalized youth.