Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
NEU
providing opportunities für equal dialogue and enhancing collaboration with young participants
soziale Inklusion
Digital youth workers were invited to share their perceptions and definitions of the social impact of digital youth work initiatives. An on-going narrative focused on empowerment, engagement, and learning emerged from all twenty conversations. Whilst discussing the importance of their work, many of the digital youth workers repeatedly referred to so-called “soft skills”—such as confidence and a sense of pride—as indicators of project success. Alex noted that, “confidence is one that we quite often associate with the arts, and [becoming] confident to express yourself”. Digital youth projects werealso described as enhancing social skills and facilitating relationship-building.
Beschreibung der Aktivität
different types of digital youth projects
Digital Storytelling defined here as “employment of story and digital technologies for personal expression” (Alrutz, 2015, p. 2) was a predominant theme in the interviews. Fifteen participants defined their projects as digital storytelling projects. The second most common digital youth activities among participants included Digital Arts (graphic design, animation, sound design) and Media Production (video, film production). The least declared types included two game design projects and three digital literacy projects. Digital youth workers’ roles varied from direct digital learning delivery (the use of digital video, animation or sound design in youth-centred contexts) to overseeing digital literacy projects delivery (where young people’s understanding of digital media is explored).
Großbritannien
While all the interviewees were aged 25 years and older, nearly half (9) of the participants were aged between 35 and 44. Other age groups participating in the interviews were as follows: six participants aged 25–34, four participants aged 35–44, and one in the 55–64 age bracket.
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche PraktkerInnen/JugendarbeiterInnen/MentorenInnen
Evaluierung der Aktivität
The Qualitative data was collected from twenty semistructured interviews and a focus group with digital youth work practitioners based in the United Kingdom and conducted in mid-2017. The purpose of the interviews and the focus group was to elicit, and gain a deeper understanding of, youth digital workers’ perceptions of their practices, and to examine the social impact evaluation methods used to measure its impact.
Two key questions guided the structure of the data collection: How do youth digital workers define and measure the social impact of their work? And what are their attitudes towards social impact evaluations of digital youth work?
20 interviewees (digital youth workers) and a focus group
2017.0