Stevens Robin, Gilliard-Matthews Stacia, Dunaev Jamie, Woods Marcus, Brawner Bridgette M
New Media Soc. 2017 Jun;19(6):950-967. doi: 10.1177/1461444815625941. Epub 2016 Jan 27.
This study examines the role of social media in the lives of youth living in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Feminist Standpoint theory, which privileges the voices of marginalized communities in understanding social phenomena, suggests that youth at the margins have specific knowledge that helps us understand social media more broadly. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 females and 30 males aged 13 to 24 about their social worlds and neighborhoods, both on- and offline. The findings reveal a dynamic and somewhat concerning interplay between the geographic neighborhood and the digital neighborhood, whereby negative social interactions in the geographic neighborhood are reproduced and amplified on social media.
本研究探讨了社交媒体在生活于弱势社区的青少年生活中所扮演的角色。女性主义立场理论在理解社会现象时重视边缘化群体的声音，该理论表明处于边缘地位的青少年拥有特定知识，有助于我们更全面地理解社交媒体。我们对30名年龄在13至24岁之间的女性和30名男性进行了半结构化访谈，内容涉及他们线上和线下的社交世界及社区。研究结果揭示了地理社区和数字社区之间动态且略显令人担忧的相互作用，即地理社区中的负面社交互动在社交媒体上被复制和放大。
