Recognition of competition' versus Will to App
Rethinking digital engagement in Australian youth sexual health promotion policy and practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5716129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Albury (0000-0001-9043-8126, Swinburne University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 171 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-50 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media International Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1329878x19850224 |
| OpenAlex | W2948958001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
Recent Australian research has found that young people (broadly defined as 15-30-year-olds) express a strong preference for seeking out digital sexual health information that is produced by authoritative sources (e.g. government websites), but are more likely to share material that is funny and/or features intimate first-person narratives. This produces a tension for sexual health messaging that aims to flag credibility, but also 'spreadability' - and perhaps even 'relatability'. This tension is not exclusive to health communication, but has much in common with challenges facing digital news publishers who have struggled in recent years to tread a line between authoritativeness and clickbait. Drawing on participant observation of Australian sexual health promotion policy and practice and studies of online news and activism, this article reflects on the challenges and opportunities facing Australian sexual health organisations seeking to work with young people in digital spaces. A range of brief case studies of models offered by successful digital publishers, such as Vice and Upworthy, are offered as alternatives to the 'Will to App
Advertising · Business · Credibility · Health care · Health promotion · Internet privacy · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Reproductive health · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Digital determinants of sexual and reproductive health—workforce perspectives on digital and data literacies
Digital sexual literacy
The Internet Both Reassures and Terrifies’
Inoculate Boys Against Toxic Masculinity’
The “memeification” of sexual health communication on Instagram
I’m not going anywhere near that
Entertaining information
Dating apps as public health 'problems
Information, influence, ritual, participation
Ten simple rules for responsible big data research
Spreadable Media
‘My Vagina Makes Funny Noises’
‘It's all scientific to me’
‘That happened to me too’
Learning from commercial entertainment producers in order to create entertainment sex education
Untangling the conflation of ‘young adults’ and ‘young people’ in STI and sexual health policy and sex education
Friendship, sexual intimacy and young people’s negotiations of sexual health
Porn and sex education, porn as sex education
I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me ”
Locked down apps versus the social media ecology
Using Digitally Distributed Vulgar Comedy to Reach Young Men with Information about Healthy Sexual Development
It would be weird to have that on Facebook
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |