Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play.

This paper examines young people’s participation in digital culture and current approaches to measure its social impact. The analysis of the literature presented here reveals current scholarly understanding of the value of digital youth culture, social impact evaluation methods and their limitations. In order to contribute to the analysis of the value of young people’s contribution to digital culture, this paper proposes two areas of consideration when working with young people: 1) Youth participation in evaluation; 2) Playful approaches to evaluation.

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Alicja Pawluczuk

Gemma Webster

Colin Smith

Hazel Hall

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-6

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[0001]Edinburgh Napier University

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.32

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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R. J. BurdgeF. Vanclay 1995 Social impact assessment Environmental and social impact assessment 31 65
J. CammarotaM. Fine 2008 Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion New York, NY Routledge
B. CheckowayK. Richards-Schuster 2003 Youth participation in community evaluation research American Journal of Evaluation 24 1 21 33
B. N. CheckowayL. M. Gutierrez 2006 Youth participation and community change: An introduction Journal of community practice 14 1-2 1 9
M. Deuze 2006 Participation, remediation, bricolage: Considering principal components of a digital culture The information society 22 2 63 75
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[1] Adobe Youth Voices June 2 2017 from http://www.adobe.com/uk/corporate-responsibility/education/adobe-youth-voices.html

[2] M. BalestriniY. RogersP. Marshall 2015 July Civically engaged HCI: tensions between novelty and social impact Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference 35 36 ACM

[3] H. BentleyO. O’HaganA. RaffI. Bhatti 2016 How safe are our children? Overview of Child Protection in the UK London: NSPCC

[4] J. BlackJ. CastroC. Lin 2015 Youth practices in digital arts and new media: Learning in formal and informal settings. Springer

[5] D. Boyd 2014 It's complicated: The social lives of networked teens Yale University Press

[6] K. BuccieriG. Molleson 2015 Empowering Homeless Youth: Building Capacity through the Development of Mobile Technology Journal of Community Practice 23 2 238 254

[7] D. Buckingham 2008 Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. London MIT press

[8] R. J. BurdgeF. Vanclay 1995 Social impact assessment Environmental and social impact assessment 31 65

[9] J. CammarotaM. Fine 2008 Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion New York, NY Routledge

[10] B. CheckowayK. Richards-Schuster 2003 Youth participation in community evaluation research American Journal of Evaluation 24 1 21 33

[11] B. N. CheckowayL. M. Gutierrez 2006 Youth participation and community change: An introduction Journal of community practice 14 1-2 1 9

[12] M. Deuze 2006 Participation, remediation, bricolage: Considering principal components of a digital culture The information society 22 2 63 75

[13] O. Erstad 2012 The learning lives of digital youth—beyond the formal and informal Oxford Review of Education 38 1 25 43

[14] D. FittonB. T. BellL. LittleM. HortonJ. C. ReadM. RouseN. Toth 2016 Working with Teenagers in HCI Research: A Reflection on Techniques Used in the Taking on the Teenagers Project Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers 237 267 Springer International Publishing

[15] K. S. Flores 2007 Youth participatory evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people 14 John Wiley & Sons

[16] K. S. Flores 2007 Youth participatory evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people 14 John Wiley & Sons

[17] M. Gawler 2005 Useful tools for engaging young people in participatory evaluation CEE/CIS Regional Office: UNICEF

[18] M. L. GuhaA. DruinJ. A. Fails 2010 June Investigating the impact of design processes on children Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 198 201 ACM

[19] R. A. Hart 1997 Children's Participation. From Tokenism to Citizenship Inocennti Essays 4 20

[20] S. C. Herring 2008 Questioning the generational divide: Technological exoticism and adult constructions of online youth identity Youth, identity, and digital media 71 94

[21] Nadia Hyder Evaluation of TTS.Digital Research Scotland 2017 Web

[22] M. ItoK. GutiérrezS. LivingstoneB. PenuelJ. Rhodesk. SalenS. C. Watkins 2013 Connected learning: An agenda for research and design BookBaby

[23] M. ItoH. A. HorstM. BittantiB. H. StephensonP. G. LangeC. J. PascoeK. Z. Martínez 2009 Living and learning with new media: Summary of findings from the Digital Youth Project MIT Press

[24] S. Livingstone 2012 Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education Oxford review of education 38 1 9 24

[25] S. LivingstoneJ. Sefton-Green 2016 The class: Living and learning in the digital age. NYU Press

[26] S. LivingstoneG. MascheroniE. Staksrud 2015 Developing a framework for researching children’s online risks and opportunities in Europe

[27] K. MaasK. Liket 2011 Social impact measurement: Classification of methods Environmental management accounting and supply chain management 171 202 Springer Netherlands

[28] T. MackrillF. Ebsen 2017 Key misconceptions when assessing digital technology for municipal youth social work European Journal of Social Work 1 12

[29] #NotWithoutMe Supporting Digital Inclusion for All Young People. Dunfermline Carniege Trust Mar 2017 Word document

[30] B. Percy-SmithN. Thomas 2009 A handbook of children and young people's participation: Perspectives from theory and practice Routledge

[31] O. Quinlan 2015 Young Digital Makers London Nesta

[32] B. RobardsA. Bennett 2011 MyTribe: Postsubcultural manifestations of belonging on social network sites Sociology 45 2 303 317

[33] K. Sabo 2003 A Vygotskian perspective on youth participatory evaluation New directions for evaluation 2003 98 13 24

[34] STEP Scottish Travel Education Programme 2016 Web 30 Mar 2017

[35] R. StevensS. Gilliard-MatthewsJ. DunaevM. K. WoodsB. M. Brawner 2016 The digital hood: Social media use among youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods new media & society, 1461444815625941 Chicago

[36] R. StevensS. Gilliard-MatthewsJ. DunaevM. K. WoodsB. M. Brawner 2016 The digital hood: Social media use among youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods new media & society 1461444815625941 Chicago

[37] TTS.Digital Creative Scotland 2015 Web 30 Mar 2017

[38] P. TurnerJ. T. Harviainen 2016 Digital Make-Believe. Springer International Publishing

[39] UNCTAD Youth Network June 2 2017 from http://unctad.org/en/Pages/Youth-Network.aspx

[40] Young Scot Digital Academy 2015 March 30 2017 from http://www.youngscot.net/what-we-do/digital-academy/

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