What is it about?
This paper describes how young members of youth development organizations, who are often categorized as "at-risk," use social media to form and maintain mentorship systems with peers older and younger than them. They value these systems as an important form of social support.
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Why is it important?
Understanding how young people use social media and especially how they use it simultaneously with other social interaction spaces like youth development programs is important for social media designers and youth counselors. They can use these insights to identify youth social support needs and integrate them into their work to serve young people.
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This article gave me the opportunity to really showcase and highlight the voices of youth who are traditionally underserved. This is something I'm very passionate about and was honored to have the chance to do.
Jennifer Pierre
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This page is a summary of: Chats Over Spats: Exploring Social Media Use for Mentorship in Youth Development Programs, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3359329.
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