Goodyear Victoria, Quennerstedt Mikael
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
Qual Res Sport Exerc Health. 2019 Oct 7;12(1):18-33. doi: 10.1080/2159676X.2019.1673470. eCollection 2020.
Recent systematic reviews identify that the factors mediating and/or moderating the relationship between social media and health outcomes are sparse. There have also been few attempts to analyse gender specific uses of social media. This paper investigated young boys health-related learning in relation to social media. Data were generated from class activities and interviews and from a large data set that included 1346 young people. The approach to the empirical data adopted was Practical Epistemology Analysis (PEA). The findings reveal two main purposes of young boys engagement with social media: (i) communicating with friends, and (ii) accessing health-related information. Irony and humour were central learning mechanisms used by young boys to participate within health-related social media, and in a way that enabled them to engage with, uphold, and handle health discourses associated with masculinity - such as being ripped - without fear of 'literal' peer ridicule and within a context of acceptable 'banter'. There was evidence that young people were critical users and generators of social media, who were clearly thinking through what they see, do, and use online. Hence, this paper provides a fresh evidence-based perspective on the potentially positive role of social media as a health-related learning resource. PEA is illustrated as a new methodological approach for investigating learning in the context of social media. The evidence generated can be used to inform future evaluations of social media use, the design of educative support for young people, and guidance and training for key stakeholders.
最近的系统评价发现，介导和/或调节社交媒体与健康结果之间关系的因素很少。也很少有人尝试分析社交媒体的性别特定用途。本文调查了年轻男孩与社交媒体相关的健康学习情况。数据来自课堂活动、访谈以及一个包含1346名年轻人的大型数据集。对实证数据采用的方法是实践认识论分析（PEA）。研究结果揭示了年轻男孩参与社交媒体的两个主要目的：（i）与朋友交流，以及（ii）获取与健康相关的信息。讽刺和幽默是年轻男孩在参与与健康相关的社交媒体时使用的核心学习机制，通过这种方式，他们能够在可接受的“玩笑”语境中，无惧“字面意义上的”同伴嘲笑，参与、维护并处理与男子气概相关的健康话语，比如拥有健硕身材。有证据表明，年轻人是社交媒体的批判性使用者和创造者，他们清楚地思考自己在网上看到、做的和使用的东西。因此，本文为社交媒体作为一种与健康相关的学习资源的潜在积极作用提供了一个新的基于证据的视角。PEA被展示为一种用于调查社交媒体背景下学习情况的新方法。所产生的证据可用于为未来社交媒体使用评估、为年轻人设计教育支持以及为关键利益相关者提供指导和培训提供参考。
