Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms

Dialogue with Peers on Reddit

Martyna Gliniecka (CASE, Poland)

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Routledge
27 December 2024

Media studies; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Human biology; Digital lifestyle

Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young people’s use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, the book explores how young people produce a youth-led discourse of youth digital health, different from the adult-led framing represented in youth digital health research, policy, and service delivery.

Peer-led discussions online remain one of the controversial forms of youth digital health, associated with negative peer influence or casual ‘teenage talk’. This book argues that online peer-led dialogues support young people’s agency in health and that young people can benefit from dealing with health issues with peers. The work is based on the digital ethnography of teenagers’ subreddits on Reddit and utilises a theoretical framework of dialogism, a linguistic-based theory originated by an early 20th-century Russian philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin. The book introduces the concept of dialogical youth-led youth digital health discourse formed in the peer-led space of Reddit. This youth-led discourse celebrates equality and diversity amongst people, meanings, and opinions. It is constructed around three relational elements: socio-material affordances, creative practices, and a plurality of youth voices. Reddit’s pseudonymous, anti-authoritarian, and egalitarian nature supports the emergence of this youth-led discourse.

The book can interest scholars and lecturers in childhood and youth studies, Internet studies, and youth health studies. Professionals such as policymakers, service designers/deliverers, online safety educators, and global youth and health agencies can use evidence-based insights in their work with young people.

By: Martyna Gliniecka (CASE Poland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032819259
ISBN 10: 1032819251
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 27 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Martyna Gliniecka works as a social sciences specialist for the Polish think tank CASE, doing research, training, and policy advisory projects. Prior to CASE, she worked at the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on young people’s health discussions on Reddit. She has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Wroclaw and a PhD in Culture and Society from Western Sydney University.