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Author Hanckel, Benjamin, author

Title LGBT+ youth and emerging technologies in Southeast Asia : designing for wellbeing / Benjamin Hanckel
Published Singapore : Springer, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Perspectives on children and young people, 2365-2985 ; volume 14
Perspectives on children and young people ; v. 14. 2365-2985
Contents 1. Queer youth and new technologies in South-East Asia -- 2. Queer safe(r) spaces: designing digital objects -- 3. Feeling safe and secure: the practices and experiences of queer youth -- 4. Designing stories for YouTube: intimate stories for multiple audiences -- 5. Post-release: examining the impact of the videos -- 6. New technologies: affect, risk and intimacy -- Appendix: Methodology
Summary This book investigates the ways in which emerging digital technologies are shaping and changing the worlds of sexuality and gender diverse youth in Southeast Asia. Primarily focused on the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia, the book examines the potential of digital technologies to enhance wellbeing in and across these contexts. Drawing on multi-site ethnographic field research, interviews, survey data, and online content analysis, the book examines the design and use of websites and content by and for LGBT+ youth. The book innovatively interrogates the design of transnational digital wellbeing initiatives, alongside the digital practices of those the technologies are designed for. It illustrates not only the (im)possibilities of technological design, but also the capacity for design to participate in what Hanckel calls '(trans)national digital wellbeing' processes. He asks us to consider the ways that global technologies are contextual -- a paradox that is explored throughout the book. The analysis extends important discussions in youth research, contributing to a greater understanding of how LGBT+ youth are engaging new technologies to participate in identity-making, health and wellbeing, as well as political action. It also considers implications for digital wellbeing and digital health promotion efforts globally with young people who experience marginalisation. In doing so the book makes a critical contribution to understanding the ways that transnational digital interventions get deployed and (at times) incorporated into youth practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebscohost, viewed on August 25, 2023)
Subject Web sites for sexual minorities -- Southeast Asia
Sexual minority youth -- Southeast Asia
Web sites -- Design -- Social aspects
Sexual minority youth
Web sites for sexual minorities
Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9819943949
9789819943944