Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
NEU
encouraging to openly share thoughts and experiences
psychosoziales Befinden
Beyond the affordances for interaction, Facebook's culture of performativity encourages its users to openly share their thoughts and experiences, giving people ringside seats to each other's lives. The youth workers leverage this access to monitor their clients' online and offline activity unobtrusively, note issues of concern and pro-actively reach out to these youths. In combination therefore, mediated pastoralism and Facebook interactions potentially offer youth workers both diagnostic and therapeutic value. Importantly, the peer interactions that are played out via Facebook, both positive and negative, enable youth workers to look beyond the frame of dysfunction to recognise and exploit the merits of their clients' social networks in their care and guidance.
Beschreibung der Aktivität
Facebook for mediated pastoralism with juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk
Youth work seeks to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents for re-entry into mainstream society and to prevent youthsat-risk from falling into delinquency, thus necessitating that youth workers assiduously monitor their clients. With the avid use of social media by youths, youth workers must also adopt these communication platforms to reach out to their young clients. [...] Surveillance forms a key thrust of youth workers' professional use of Facebook, enhancing their ability to oversee these youths' personal development for the purposes of mentoring and rehabilitation.
Singapore
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche PraktikerInnen/JugendarbeiterInnen/MentorenInnen
Evaluierung der Aktivität
We interviewed the youth workers using a series of semi-structured questions about their work experience and the challenges and gratifications they derived from youth work. We also probed them on their experiences and perceptions of using social media such as Facebook and mobile phone text messaging to communicate with their clients. The decision was made to focus on Facebook because it was the most popular social media among Singapore youths at the time, as we had also noted from participants in the first phase of our study. We also sought their perceptions of their clients' use of online and mobile communications.
24 youth workers
December 2011 and June 2012