Belonging and Social Media: Latinx Teenagers’ Experiences in a YPAR Study

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI:10.1177/20563051251319577

Holland P. Kowalkowski, Angela D. R. Smith

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Abstract

Drawing on figured worlds and geographies of selves frameworks, we use critical ethnographic methods to explore three Latina teenagers’ experiences and ideas about social media and identity that were expressed throughout a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project. While their discussions show a clear awareness that these sites are often inaccurate and biased, teenagers still admit to comparing themselves with others online and feeling disconnected. By sharing stories about racial and linguistic discrimination in virtual spaces, participants highlight how many social inequities are being reproduced online. However, they also express optimism that social media has potential to offer new ways to connect with their communities and express multifaceted identities. Their experiences highlight a need for intentional opportunities in our schools and communities to critically reflect on ways that technology positions us and explore our power to redefine these roles.

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归属感与社交媒体：拉丁裔青少年在YPAR研究中的经验

利用图形世界和自我框架的地理位置，我们使用关键的民族志方法来探索三个拉丁裔青少年在青年参与行动研究（YPAR）项目中表达的关于社交媒体和身份的经历和想法。虽然他们的讨论表明，他们清楚地意识到这些网站往往是不准确和有偏见的，但青少年仍然承认，他们会把自己和网上的其他人进行比较，并感到疏离。通过在虚拟空间中分享有关种族和语言歧视的故事，参与者强调了有多少社会不平等正在网上重现。然而，他们也乐观地表示，社交媒体有潜力提供与他们的社区联系和表达多方面身份的新途径。他们的经历强调了我们需要在学校和社区中有意识地创造机会，批判性地反思技术对我们的定位方式，并探索我们重新定义这些角色的能力。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.