Understanding the Power of Social Media during Covid-19

Forming Social Norms for Drinking among Sexual Minority Gender Expansive College Women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3645322
AutoresAlison Cerezo (0000-0003-4941-6616, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia), Amaranta Ramirez (0000-0002-7575-1269, University of California, Santa Barbara), Tiffany O’shaughnessy (0000-0002-0933-3210, San Francisco State University), Adriana Sanchez (0000-0002-3296-4424, University of California, Santa Barbara), Samantha Matti, Samantha Mattis (University of California, Santa Barbara), Andrea Ro (0000-0001-6365-9556, University of California, Santa Barbara), Andrea Ross (0000-0003-1529-8375, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Año2021
Volumen68
Número4
Páginas560-576
Fecha de publicación2021-03-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2020.1868183
PMID33428564
OpenAlexW3118237531
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas31

Social media serves as a key mechanism for sexual minority young adults to connect with peers and to learn about COVID-19. We utilized focus groups to explore how sexual minority gender expansive college women (N= 28) engage with social media, including alcohol-related content on social networking sites. Two focus groups were held in-person during the month before the campus closed on March 10, 2020 due to a shelter-in-place mandate. Focus groups were then moved online, and also assessed how engagement with social media, including alcohol-related content, changed in response to COVID-19 at one month and two months into shelter-in-place. Using social media to connect with sexual and gender minority (SGM) content and community was a prominent theme across the three cohorts of data collection. Social drinking via social networking sites became increasingly prominent during shelter-in-place as a way to combat isolation, boredom, and the general stress of coping with COVID-19

Boredom · Focus group · Minority stress · Political science · Sexual minority · Sexual orientation · Social isolation · Social media · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology