Social media bodies : revealing the entanglement of sexual well-being, mental health, and social media in education
Hendry, Natalie 2017, Social media bodies : revealing the entanglement of sexual well-being, mental health, and social media in education. In Rasmussen, Mary Lou and Allen, Louisa (ed), The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Eng., pp.509-526, doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-40033-8_25.
While media and youth research reveal the intersectionality of young people’s sexual well-being, mental health, and social media practices, little attention has been paid to how this entanglement is addressed in education. Pedagogy that is not informed by a nuanced and interconnected understanding of young people’s everyday experiences of sexual well-being, mental health, and social media is likely to be ineffective and inadequate. I describe a workshop activity with young people experiencing mental ill health that uses bodies as a metaphor for social media, allowing participants to reveal and discuss their experiences, attitudes, and values through dressing up and illustrating “social media bodies.” I outline three themes that arose from the workshops: revealing and destabilising affordances, the spatial and temporal affordances of social media, and young people’s affective relationships through and with social media, and advocate for an intersectional approach to sexuality education, one that is necessarily complex and ambivalent.
130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy 130399 Specialist Studies In Education not elsewhere classified
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