This book considers the impact of digital media and technology on lived experience for young people in foster care. While the extent and intricacies of foster care—known as out-of-home care (OOHC) in Australia, where this study takes place—are not widely understood by the general public, youth in care might struggle to construct a personal identity that goes beyond reflecting the stereotypes and stigma by which they are often recognised. In today’s digital environment, media can play a significant role in any individual’s developing sense of self, identity, and belonging. Deitz and Sheridan Burns examine OOHC through the lens of networked media environments and investigate the conditions that encourage belonging and resilience in order to e...
Child protection manuals and literature emphasize that developing a sense of identity is one of the ...
Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development ...
In 2004 a Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee published a report that described the harsh c...
Objectives: When children enter residential care, they leave their familiar environment. Due to bein...
This chapter examines how digital media practices, relating to care and intimacy (the ‘intimate surv...
This book explores how digital media can extend care practices among friends and peers, researching ...
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in the digital rhythms of the household? Through...
This chapter considers the home and family as an important structuring context for informal media en...
This paper explores the cultural and biographical specificity of home by examining the connections b...
The circumstances of those who are, or have been, in the care system may augment concern about their...
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the househ...
The foster care environment, as a sub-set of Out-of-Home Care (OOHC), has been described as complex,...
This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the...
Looked after children are particularly vulnerable and Alicia Blum-Ross discusses some of the opportu...
Clinical work with adolescents and young people over the last decade has indicated that an intense r...
Child protection manuals and literature emphasize that developing a sense of identity is one of the ...
Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development ...
In 2004 a Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee published a report that described the harsh c...
Objectives: When children enter residential care, they leave their familiar environment. Due to bein...
This chapter examines how digital media practices, relating to care and intimacy (the ‘intimate surv...
This book explores how digital media can extend care practices among friends and peers, researching ...
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in the digital rhythms of the household? Through...
This chapter considers the home and family as an important structuring context for informal media en...
This paper explores the cultural and biographical specificity of home by examining the connections b...
The circumstances of those who are, or have been, in the care system may augment concern about their...
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the househ...
The foster care environment, as a sub-set of Out-of-Home Care (OOHC), has been described as complex,...
This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the...
Looked after children are particularly vulnerable and Alicia Blum-Ross discusses some of the opportu...
Clinical work with adolescents and young people over the last decade has indicated that an intense r...
Child protection manuals and literature emphasize that developing a sense of identity is one of the ...
Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development ...
In 2004 a Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee published a report that described the harsh c...