Youth wellbeing by design integrating research, critical perspectives, and innovation edited by Carrie James and Mizuko Ito

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Carrie, editor.

Itō, Mizuko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and children.

Internet and children.

Internet and teenagers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press [2026]

Summary:

"Book cover for Youth Well-Being by Design: Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and InnovationYouth Well-Being by Design: Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and InnovationOpen AccessEdited by Carrie James, Mizuko ItoThe MIT PressDOI: https://doi-org.proxy.library.upenn.edu/10.7551/mitpress/15949.001.0001ISBN electronic: 9780262052566Publication date: 2026An edited collection with fresh approaches to tech and youth well-being that go beyond blame and simplistic solutions.The relationship between technology use and youth well-being has been a topic of concern—and contention—for some time. The adolescent mental health crisis has amplified the debate to a fever pitch. But the relationship between technology use and well-being can’t be reduced to the question of whether social media and other technologies are good or bad. Finding effective solutions needs to be grounded in the broader and diverse realities of young people’s lives. Youth Well-Being by Design, edited by Carrie James and Mizuko Ito, shifts the conversation in productive directions, to move beyond the unproductive finger-pointing at tech, technologically determinist narratives, and fixation on sweeping, one-size-fits-all solutions that often do more harm than good.The collection offers essential research insights, critical perspectives, and design frameworks supportive of youth well-being in a technology-rich world. Essays offer insights from developmental science and youth development, sociocultural perspectives, well-being research, dignity theory, sociology, psychology, and community organizing. Contributors make the case for youth-centered and community-based approaches, methods, and measures for research and design including participatory design, critical race theory, and critical humanizing digital literacies. Qualitative data (including case studies) provide robust descriptions of youth perspectives and experiences, as well as promising pedagogies and methods for taking youth- and agency-centered approaches to designing for youth well-being"-- MIT Press Direct

Contents:

Introduction : youth well-being by design / Mizuko Ito and Carrie James

Digital well-being in early childhood / Jenny Radesky

Adolescents’ social media use and body image / Sophia Choukas-Bradley

Social media use measures : critical considerations for supporting adolescent mental well-being / Bradley Kerr, Zoe Stratman, Armaan Bhasin, Garv Bhasin, Natasha Matta, Janice Peng, and Megan A. Moreno

Digital well-being on the college quad : lessons from undergraduates’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic / Luna Laliberte and Vikki Katz

Bugs, bots, and algorithmic bias : an introduction to critical race technology theory in education / Tiera Tanksley

Critically human : the importance of a humanizing ethic in technology design / Cherise McBride and Earl Aguilera

“We’re not always heard” : young journalists humanizing digital platforms to report on, with, and for well-being / Monica Clark, Cherise McBride, and Elisabeth Soep

One (adult) size does not fit all : the importance of development in digital design and utilization / Stephanie M. Reich, Allison Starks, and Zhaoyuan Su

Designing care(full) online play communities for youth / Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Thomas Grace, Krithika Jagannath, and Ian Larson

From the grind to meaningful technology use : partnering with youth to codesign digital well-being interventions / Emily Weinstein, Katie Davis, and Carrie James

“Stick up for yourself… delete the comment and block her. Like… it’s not that difficult” : exploring the role of dignity in design for artificial intelligence-based cyberbullying interventions / Tijana Milosevic, Anne Collier, Elisabeth Staksrud, and Ioanna Noula

Youth codesigning more positive digital ecosystems : an action research journey via a youth advisory board / Linda Charmaraman, J. Maya Hernandez, Jules Weed, Sidrah Durrani, Alyssa Gramajo, Catherine Grevet Delcourt, and the members of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab Youth Advisory Board (2021-2022)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (MIT Press Direct, viewed June 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Youth wellbeing by design

ISBN:

9780262052559

0262052555

9780262052566

0262052563

OCLC:

1586887540

Access Restriction:

Some versions Open access versions available from some providers open access