Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how digital media can extend care practices among friends and peers, researching young people's negotiations of sexual health, mental health, gender/sexuality, and dating apps, and highlighting the need for a multifocal approach that centres young people's expertise.
Taking an everyday practice approach to digital and social media, Digital Media, Friendship and Cultures of Care emphasises that digital media are not novel but integrated into daily life. The book introduces the concept of digital cultures of care as a new framework through which to consider digital practices of friendship and peer support, and how these play out across a range of platforms and networks. Challenging common public and academic concerns about peer and friendship influences on young people, these terms are unpacked and reconsidered through attention to digital media, drawing on qualitative research findings to argue that digital and social media have created important new o
Table of Contents
Introduction: Who Cares?;
Chapter 1: More than just friends;
Chapter 2: What do we know about peers?;
Chapter 3: Young people’s social media expertise;
Chapter 4: Friendship and sexual intimacy;
Chapter 5: LGBTQ+ peer support for mental health;
Chapter 6: Friends with dating apps;
Conclusion: Everyday care
