Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Wilkinson, Samantha

doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1227872

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“…Before widespread use of social media, adolescents' culture of intoxication used to be based on face-to-face drinking rituals on Friday or Saturday nights in private situations, such as in house parties. These private situations constituted 'informal spaces' (Valentine, Holloway, and Jayne 2010) or 'dark drinkscapes' (Wilkinson 2017), in which young people could create their own intimate space distinct from other spaces (Demant and Østergaard 2007, 121). In these private spaces adolescents aimed at getting intoxicated together with their friends by drinking at the same pace and as much as the others (Demant and Østergaard 2007, 117;Törrönen and Maunu 2007b).…”

Section: Young People's (Gendered) Drinking-related Social Media Assementioning

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How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people?

Törrönen

Roumeliotis

Samuelsson

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Journal of Youth Studies

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Research shows that young people's online practices have become a continuous, seamless and routine part of their physical and social worlds. Studies report contradictory findings on whether social media promotes intoxication-driven drinking cultures among young people or diminishes their alcohol consumption. By applying actor-network theory, our starting point is that the effects of social media depend on what kinds of concerns mediate its use. Social media alone cannot make young people drink more or less but influences their drinking in relation to specific attachments that we call here 'assemblages'. The data consist of individual interviews among girls (n = 32) and boys (n = 24) between 15 and 19 years old from Sweden, covering topics such as alcohol use, social media habits and leisure time activities. The paper maps the variety of assemblages that mediate young people's online practices and analyzes how young people's drinking-related social media assemblages increase, decrease or exclude their alcohol consumption. The analysis shows that social media-related attachments seem to reduce our interviewees' use of alcohol by providing competing activities, by transforming their drinking under the public eye, by reorganizing their party rituals to be less oriented towards drinking and by facilitating parents' monitoring of their drinking situations. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Young People's (Gendered) Drinking-related Social Media Assementioning

confidence: 99%

How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people?

Törrönen

Roumeliotis

Samuelsson

et al. 2020

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…Watson and Wells, 2005), as well as those more narrowly concerned with the geographies of alcohol consumption (e.g. Jayne et al, 2008;Wilkinson, 2017).…”

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Enthusiasm, craft and authenticity on the High Street: micropubs as ‘community fixers’

Hubbard

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Wilkinson's (2016;2017) use of the term ‚everynight' refers to Malbon's notion of the everynight (1998).…”

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Collapsing contexts: social networking technologies in young people’s nightlife

Truong

2018

Children's Geographies

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In the latest discussions of children and young people's new geographies of leisure and pleasure, one controversial issue has been how digital technologies co-produce and reconfigure young people's everyday worlds. This article draws on semi-structured interviews with 40 young people who regularly use social networking technologies in their nightlife experiences in Zurich and Lausanne, two nightlife hubs in Switzerland. Informed by Danah Boyd's concepts of 'collapsing contexts' and 'imagined audiences', this article enables a critical engagement with young people's emerging understanding of their nightlife contexts, which are increasingly permeated by networking technologies. I show how social networking spaces facilitate the coming together, or collapse, of various social contexts which induce young people to imagine multiple audiences, including authority figures, in their nightlife practices. These collapsing contexts and imagined audiences, I argue, present new perspectives on debates about control and surveillance in young people's contemporary urban nightlife.

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Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Cited by 34 publications

References 67 publications

How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people?

How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people?

Enthusiasm, craft and authenticity on the High Street: micropubs as ‘community fixers’

Collapsing contexts: social networking technologies in young people’s nightlife

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