The role of social media on positive youth development: An analysis of 4-H Facebook page and 4-H'ers' positive development
The role of social media on positive youth development: An analysis of 4-H Facebook page and 4-H'ers' positive development
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.04.014
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发表时间：
2017-06-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Horsley, J. Suzanne
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作者：
Lee, Ah Ram;Horsley, J. Suzanne
为了把孩子培养成有责任心、积极向上、价值观端正的公民，许多青年组织都致力于提供优质的机会，鼓励他们尽早参与公民活动。许多组织积极参与社会媒体，以最有效地实现他们的目标。社交媒体提供了促进这些机会的潜力，与青年交流，并最终促进积极的青年发展。考虑到社交媒体对青少年的重要性，了解如何将其作为促进青少年发展的工具至关重要。因此，本研究利用正面青年发展（PYD）框架，通过分析一个4-H俱乐部的案例，探讨Facebook沟通在培养胜任力、自信、联系、性格、同情心和贡献六个特质中的作用，以及它们对青少年公民参与的影响。采用混合方法进行两步研究。第一步通过对2009年至2015年初发布的帖子进行内容分析，分析全国4-H Facebook页面的传播模式。第二步，对最近的4-H校友进行了七次深度访谈，他们在会员期间使用了4-H官方Facebook页面。研究结果强调了社交媒体在促进青年积极发展和未来公民参与方面的关键作用，并讨论了实际意义。
With the hope of raising children to become responsible and active citizens with upstanding values, many youth related organizations have focused their efforts on providing quality opportunities to encourage early participation in civic engagements. Many organizations actively engage in social media to fulfill their goals most effectively. Social media offer the potential to promote those opportunities, communicate with youth, and eventually facilitate positive youth development. Considering the importance of social media among youth, it is critical to understand how to use it as a tool to foster youth development. Therefore, utilizing the positive youth development (PYD) framework, this study examines the role of Facebook communications in developing six traits competence, confidence, connection, character, compassion, and contribution and their effects on youth civic engagement by analyzing a 4-H club case. Mixed methods are used to conduct a two-step study. The first step analyzes communication patterns of the national 4-H Facebook page through content analysis of posts from 2009 to early 2015. For the second step, seven in-depth interviews were conducted with recent 4-H alumni, who used the official 4-H Facebook page during their period of membership. The findings emphasized the critical role of social media in fostering positive development of youth and future civic engagement, and practical implications are discussed.