Digitally Connected: Youth, Digital Media and Social Inclusion
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Childhood and Youth Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 131
Special Issue Editor
Interests: digital media; Asian media; media diversity; sport and diversity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue explores young people’s relationships with, use of, and interactions on digital media. Digital media dominates the lives of an entire generation. It plays an integral part in young people’s sense of belonging and identity, their social interactions, their working lives, their self-expression, and their consumption of news and information.
As Guest Editor of this Special Issue, I want to highlight the current research into the centrality of digital media in the lives of young people. I am seeking submissions including (but not limited to) the following themes or topics.
- How does digital media affect young people’s identity, belonging, and sense of self?
- What do young people get out of digital media? How do they learn from it, and how does it enrich or hinder their lives?
- How are digital platforms and applications used in organising and lobbying by young people around special interests or hobbies?
- How do young people navigate personal relationships and social interaction through digital media?
- How do young people consume, or create, digital news and information?
- How do young people incorporate digital media in their professional lives, or in the service of their work?
Other submissions involving young people’s relationships with digital media will also be considered.
Dr. Nasya Bahfen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital media
- digital news
- social identity
- social inclusion
- social media
- youth
- youth cultures
- digital platforms
- online communities
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