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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.
Contents
Contents
1 Digital youth in a digital world - opportunities and
constraints: an introduction 1
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 12
Niina Sormanen and Hanna Reinikainen
3 Growing up together with artificial intelligence: distribution
of agency in commercial digital environments 28
Jussi Nyrhinen and Eero Rantala
4 Careful or carefree? Young people and information nontransparency on social media 41
Katerina Tsetsura, Vilma Luoma-aho and Eero Rantala
5 Digital communication between young people and parents: a
tale of two studies 65
Jodi Dworkin and Xiaoran Sun
6 Everyday digital parenting: datafication, mediation and
sharenting 81
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 97
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? 120
Mette Ranta, Lijun Li and Joyce Serido
9 Digital agency and vulnerability: a study on young adult
consumers in personalised advertising ecosystems 140
Mikko Laamanen, Erlend Kok, Arne Dulsrud and Dag Slettemeås
10 Factors preventing young people from protecting their
commercial privacy in digital environments 159
Sonali Srivastava
11 Pay to play: the ideology of microtransactions and loot boxes
in video games 172
Christopher McMahon
12 The gig economy in the digital era: platform work as a crutch
for precarity? 187
Julia Nuckols
PART III RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG
PEOPLE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS
13 Problematic online behaviours during COVID-19: emerging
risks and concerns 202
Anu Sirola
14 AI magnified inequalities: bias, (un)fairness and
discrimination resulting from the use of AI-based
technologies in the education sector 218
Maris Männiste and Andra Siibak
15 Making a life through digital (in-)securities: the entanglement
of risks and skills in teen refugees' digital lives 233
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 250
Franziska Laaber, Teresa Koch, Arnd Florack and Marco Hubert
17 Towards the digital future of AI generations: a conclusion 269
Terhi-Anna Wilska and Jussi Nyrhinen
