Children Take Charge: Helping Behaviors and Organized Action Among Young People After Hurricane Katrina

Austin, Jessica; Bittel, Elizabeth; Domingue, Simone J.; Villarreal, Melissa

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39312-0_6

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“…This study underscores the creative capacity of youth in disaster contexts (Peek et al, 2020), and it contributes to the understanding of how the youth can channel that agency to meaningfully help their communities in cases of crisis and disaster management using social media. While in many cases they will start and lead efforts separate from formal structures and government organizations, technology allows the youth to have agency and impact at a societal level, even achieving results that sometimes formal organizations will have a hard time reaching, because of bureaucracy and the rigidity of their structures.…”

Section: Con Clus Ionmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…This study adds support to the literature that indicates that children, teenagers and young adults can have agency in multiple spaces: from their family settings and schools to areas such as crime prevention, health care, consumer culture, political economies of labour, and rights and political participation, both locally and globally (Oswell, 2013). This case study showcases, in particular, that in crises and after natural disasters, youth agency can also play an integral role (Peek et al, 2020) in the development and coordination of relief efforts.…”

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confidence: 96%

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“It helped us, and it hurt us” The role of social media in shaping agency and action among youth in post‐disaster Nepal

Dahal

Idris

Bravo

2020

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This case study explores the communication platforms that youth in Nepal used to respond to the Gorkha earthquake that struck this country on 25 April 2015, and it delves into the role that social media played in shaping the relief efforts initialled and led by youth in Nepal. The data were collected through ethnographic fieldwork and 50 in‐depth interviews conducted in Nepal during the summers of 2015 and 2016 with Nepali youth directly involved in the relief efforts during the immediate aftermath. Findings show that Nepali youth served as integral agents of influence in the chaotic aftermath of the Gorkha earthquake, it highlights the various ways in which virtual communities mostly helped but (in some cases) hindered the relief distribution and coordination process, and it analyses how these 50 young people in Nepal conceptualized social media's role in shaping their agency and resilience. Implications are discussed on how the results of this case study can allow academics and practitioners gauge the effectiveness of social media platforms to respond to crises, understand their impact for people in distinct generations and evaluate the feasibility and inclusivity of using social media as a tool in national crises, especially in developing countries.

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confidence: 77%

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confidence: 96%

“It helped us, and it hurt us” The role of social media in shaping agency and action among youth in post‐disaster Nepal

Dahal

Idris

Bravo

2020

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…Adolescents can play an important role in disaster response and preparedness [ 26 ]. Peek and colleagues [ 27 ] identified many youth contributions in response to Hurricane Katrina. They found that children and adolescents helped raise and donate money, collect material goods and supplies, assist with rebuilding, support behavioral health, develop programs and raise awareness, and found new organizations.…”

Section: Exploring Cerc As Applied To Adolescentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent systematic review on the use of technology to scale up youth-led participatory action research found few, albeit positive, examples of the powerful nature of adolescent SM engagement [ 33 ]. This suggests that adolescents may possess expertise in SM that has been underrecognized and underused, and there is limited documentation of adolescent contributions on SM platforms [ 27 ].…”

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Real-Time Communication: Creating a Path to COVID-19 Public Health Activism in Adolescents Using Social Media

Sobowale¹,

Hilliard²,

Ignaszewski³

et al. 2020

J Med Internet Res

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The COVID-19 pandemic and related public health efforts limiting in-person social interactions present unique challenges to adolescents. Social media, which is widely used by adolescents, presents an opportunity to counteract these challenges and promote adolescent health and public health activism. However, public health organizations and officials underuse social media to communicate with adolescents. Using well-established risk communication strategies and insights from adolescent development and human-computer interaction literature, we identify current efforts and gaps, and propose recommendations to advance the use of social media risk communication for adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and future disasters.

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Children Take Charge: Helping Behaviors and Organized Action Among Young People After Hurricane Katrina

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“It helped us, and it hurt us” The role of social media in shaping agency and action among youth in post‐disaster Nepal

“It helped us, and it hurt us” The role of social media in shaping agency and action among youth in post‐disaster Nepal

Real-Time Communication: Creating a Path to COVID-19 Public Health Activism in Adolescents Using Social Media

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