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Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media
Social media use has become increasingly enmeshed in the lives of youth. Although investigations in this area have tended to focus on risk (e.g., cyberbullying) and negative outcomes (e.g., in mental health and academic functioning), a growing body of literature suggests there may be positive develo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9773887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570990 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.944207 |
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author | LeBlanc, Tate Loyd, Aerika Brittian |
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description | Social media use has become increasingly enmeshed in the lives of youth. Although investigations in this area have tended to focus on risk (e.g., cyberbullying) and negative outcomes (e.g., in mental health and academic functioning), a growing body of literature suggests there may be positive developmental outcomes associated with Black youths’ social media use. Social media may offer Black youth a means of resisting negative experiences, expand their opportunities to create and explore, and facilitate the integration of their racial and STEM identities. Aligned with PYD perspectives and PVEST, we suggest this dynamic process occurs iteratively within youth and bidirectionally between youth and their environment (online and offline) over the course of development. In this article, we present a conceptual model to guide future investigations to address gaps in the literature and elucidate the linkages between social media use, racial identity, and STEM identity among Black youth. We begin by reviewing two frameworks that provide the theoretical foundations for our model. We then discuss our outcomes of interest: racial identity and STEM identity. Given its rapidly evolving nature, we then proceed with a discussion about how social media may be operationalized, noting limitations in the current literature and highlighting the unique ways in which social media differs from offline contexts. Subsequently, we present our conceptual model, which we situate within distal, proximal, and individual offline influences. We also propose processes that may link social media use to positive identity outcomes. We conclude this article with recommendations for future investigations. |
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spelling | pubmed-97738872022-12-23 Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media LeBlanc, Tate Loyd, Aerika Brittian Front Psychol Psychology Social media use has become increasingly enmeshed in the lives of youth. Although investigations in this area have tended to focus on risk (e.g., cyberbullying) and negative outcomes (e.g., in mental health and academic functioning), a growing body of literature suggests there may be positive developmental outcomes associated with Black youths’ social media use. Social media may offer Black youth a means of resisting negative experiences, expand their opportunities to create and explore, and facilitate the integration of their racial and STEM identities. Aligned with PYD perspectives and PVEST, we suggest this dynamic process occurs iteratively within youth and bidirectionally between youth and their environment (online and offline) over the course of development. In this article, we present a conceptual model to guide future investigations to address gaps in the literature and elucidate the linkages between social media use, racial identity, and STEM identity among Black youth. We begin by reviewing two frameworks that provide the theoretical foundations for our model. We then discuss our outcomes of interest: racial identity and STEM identity. Given its rapidly evolving nature, we then proceed with a discussion about how social media may be operationalized, noting limitations in the current literature and highlighting the unique ways in which social media differs from offline contexts. Subsequently, we present our conceptual model, which we situate within distal, proximal, and individual offline influences. We also propose processes that may link social media use to positive identity outcomes. We conclude this article with recommendations for future investigations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9773887/ /pubmed/36570990 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.944207 Text en Copyright © 2022 LeBlanc and Loyd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology LeBlanc, Tate Loyd, Aerika Brittian Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media |
title | Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media |
title_full | Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media |
title_fullStr | Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media |
title_full_unstemmed | Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media |
title_short | Freedom dreaming to STEM: A conceptual model for Black youth’s racial and STEM identity development through social media |
title_sort | freedom dreaming to stem: a conceptual model for black youth’s racial and stem identity development through social media |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9773887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570990 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.944207 |
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