Internet and Social Media Access Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Mixed-Methods Study

[Access, equity and social cohesion: evaluation of intersectoral strategies for people experiencing homelessness].

OBJECTIVE To understand and evaluate the work of intersectoral assistance on the insertion and the flow of people in situation of street with severe mental illness in public services of Mental Health. METHOD A case study developed from ten visits to a night shelter between March and April 2012. For data collection, the participant observation and semi-structured interviews were carried out wi...

Internet and Social Media Use as a Resource Among Homeless Youth

Little is known about internet and social media use among homeless youth. Consistent with typologies prevalent among housed youth, we found that homeless youth were using internet and social media for entertainment, sociability, and instrumental purposes. Using Haythornwaite's (2001) premise that it is important to look at the types of ties accessed in understanding the impact of new media, we ...

Social Media and Youth

When examining young people’s experience of social media, it is useful to extend the notion of social media to appreciate not only the antecedents of some current youth online practices, but also the development of research concepts and frameworks related to this topic. For many researchers and media commentators the term social media refers principally, and narrowly, to the more communication ...

Social Network Decay as Potential Recovery from Homelessness: A Mixed Methods Study in Housing First Programming

The positive relationship between social support and mental health has been well documented, but individuals experiencing chronic homelessness face serious disruptions to their social networks. Housing First (HF) programming has been shown to improve health and stability of formerly chronically homeless individuals. However, researchers are only just starting to understand the impact HF has on ...

Experiencing Virtual Social Enterprise Media Architectures