Young people in digital environments : agency, opportunities and risks / edited by Terhi-Anna Wilska (Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä) and Jussi Nyrhinen (Senior Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä and University Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilska, Terhi-Anna, editor.

Nyrhinen, Jussi, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and youth.

Virtual reality.

Social media and youth.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This pioneering book examines how young people's agency in differing digital landscapes intersects with areas such as communication, economy, work and leisure. Terhi-Anna Wilska and Jussi Nyrhinen analyse the underlying factors upholding these dynamics and provide recommendations to enhance young people's influence and competence in digital environments. The contributing authors explore how the role of social media affects the ways in which young people perceive information and news and communicate with family and peers. They investigate risks related to privacy, online gambling and gaming, virtual surveillance, algorithmic advertising and AI-based evaluations. The book uses a variety of research methods within multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to present a cross-cultural approach focused on global issues including the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of everyday Artificial Intelligence. It also illustrates how social media can empower young people by enabling active agency, increasing their financial wellbeing, improving their digital skills and extending their social networks. Young People in Digital Environments is a vital resource for students and scholars in digital and cultural sociology, science and technology and the sociology of youth and childhood. Timely and engaging, it is also beneficial to policymakers and practitioners in schools, NGOs and to leaders in digital businesses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Digital youth in a digital world - opportunities and constraints: An Introduction / Terhi-Anna Wilska and Jussi Nyrhinen

Part I: Young people's agency in public and private digital communication

2. Young people as audiences, consumers and participants in digital news and information environments / Niina Sormanen and Hanna Reinikainen

3. Growing up together with artificial intelligence: Distribution of agency in commercial digital environments / Jussi Nyrhinen and Eero Rantala

4. Careful or carefree? Young people and information nontransparency on social media / Katerina Tsetsura, Vilma Luoma-aho and Eero Rantala

5. Digital communication between young people and parents: A tale of two studies / Jodi Dworkin and Xiaoran Sun

6. Everyday digital parenting: Datafication, mediation and sharenting / Ana Jorge, Francisca Porfírio and Rita Grácio

Part II: Young people as digital consumers and financial actors

7. Ict engagement and other factors associated with adolescents' financial literacy: Evidence from pisa / Gintautas Silinskas, Kati Laine and Arto K. Ahonen

8. Did financial identity moderate young adults' social media use and financial well-being during covid-19? / Mette Ranta, Lijun Li and Joyce Serido

9. Digital agency and vulnerability: A study on young adult consumers in personalised advertising ecosystems / Mikko Laamanen, Erlend Kok, Arne Dulsrud and Dag Slettemeås

10. Factors preventing young people from protecting their commercial privacy in digital environments / Sonali Srivastava

11. Pay to play: The ideology of microtransactions and loot boxes in video games / Christopher McMahon

12. The gig economy in the digital era: Platform work as a crutch for precarity? / Julia Nuckols

Part III: Risks and opportunities for young people in digital environments

13. Problematic online behaviours during covid-19: Emerging risks and concerns / Anu Sirola

14. AI magnified inequalities: Bias, (un)fairness and discrimination resulting from the use of ai-based technologies in the education sector / Maris Männiste and Andra Siibak

15. Making a life through digital (in-)securities: The entanglement of risks and skills in teen refugees' digital lives / Myria Georgiou, Leen d'Haenens, Alia Zaki, Verónica Donoso and Emilie Bossens

16. Digital maturity - enabling a beneficial use of digital technologies by children and adolescents / Franziska Laaber, Teresa Koch, Arnd Florack and Marco Hubert

17. Towards the digital future of AI generations: A conclusion / Terhi-Anna Wilska and Jussi Nyrhinen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035329250 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.