Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms - Dialogue With Peers on Reddit

This book focuses on young people's use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, the book explores how young people produce a youth-led discourse of youth digital health, different from the adult-led framing represented in youth digital health research, policy, and service delivery.

List of contents

1. Youth, the Digital, and Health
2. Collective Meaning-Making: Dialogism
3. Dialogicality and Reddit's Affordances
4. Creative Dialogical Digital Health Practices
5. Youth Voices about Health Matters
6. Youth-Led Youth Digital Health

About the author

Martyna Gliniecka works as a social sciences specialist for the Polish think tank CASE, doing research, training, and policy advisory projects. Prior to CASE, she worked at the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on young people's health discussions on Reddit. She has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Wroclaw and a PhD in Culture and Society from Western Sydney University.

Summary

This book focuses on young people’s use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, the book explores how young people produce a youth-led discourse of youth digital health, different from the adult-led framing represented in youth digital health research, policy, and service delivery.

Product details

• Authors: Martyna Gliniecka, Martyna (Case Gliniecka
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032819259
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281925-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Human biology, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Medical Anthropology