Digital technologies and youth work: Opportunities and challenges for models and theory
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
Youth Work in a Digital Society
Publisher
IGI Global
School
School of Arts and Humanities / Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Social Change
RAS ID
32367
Abstract
Within this chapter the authors explore the implications of ‘digital disruption' for key youth work concepts like friendship, relationship, trust, and community and how changing everyday understandings of these concepts can be, or should be, adopted into youth work theorisation and praxis. Secondly, the authors discuss Freirean critical dialogue and the development of critical consciousness, and how this is challenged by the targeted disinformation found in social media. We argue that micro-targeted disinformation has profound implications for the practice of critical pedagogy. Finally, the authors provide an overview of the opportunities presented by digital technologies, particularly when integrated with existing methods, and some examples of successful practice.
DOI
10.4018/978-1-7998-2956-0.ch001
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Comments
Cooper, T., Brooker, M. R., Tierney, H., & Sutcliffe, J. (2020). Digital technologies and youth work: Opportunities and challenges for models and theory. In Z. Zaremohzzabieh, S. Ahrari, S. E. Krauss, A. Abu Samah & S. Z. Omar (Eds.), Youth Work in a Digital Society (pp. 1-20). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2956-0.ch001