Kategorie: Forschung

Allgemein, Forschung, Identity, Wissenschaft

The emergence of self-help content on social media: An interview with psychologist Maike Preissing

Earlier this year, in March of 2024, #YouthMediaLife hosted its second international conference, where I had the opportunity to present my research on “The Language of Short-Form Self-Help on Social Media”. In my talk, I discussed the use of hashtags on Instagram posts about neurodiversity and mental health. My investigation focused on hashtags such as #neurodiverse, #selfdiagnosis, #neurodivergent, #neurodivergence, #selfdiagnosed, and #neurodiversity. At the time of conducting my research, I found that the hashtags #neurodiversity and #neurodivergent were, by […]

Allgemein, Bildung, CoVid19, Digital ethnography, Digital Technologies, Education, Fan-Aktivismus, Forschung, Gamification, Identity, Journalismus, Jugendliche Medienwelten, Medienkompetenz, Neue Normalitäten, Social Media, Uni Wien, Wissenschaft

#YML24 Conference Impressions

We have summarized our personal impression of the interdisciplinary conference #YouthMediaLife 2024: Interdisciplinary Perspectives into Digital Practices, held from March 25, 2024 to March 28, 2024, at the University of Vienna. Susanne Reichl Lisza-Sophie Neumeier Georg Wendt It’s a peculiar feeling to bemoan a four-day event that, in its lead-up, drew much attention, demanded It’s a peculiar feeling to bemoan a four-day event that, in its lead-up, drew much attention, demanded lots of effort, and necessitated great care from […]

Allgemein, Forschung, Identity

From Head to Toe: A Deep Dive into the Linguistic Repertoires of two Austrian Members of Generation Alpha

In the setting of a cozy living room in Vienna, two young minds, Lena (10) and Stella (8), equipped with colored pencils, embarked on a creative journey that would unveil the anatomy of their linguistic repertoires (quite literally). As they filled in silhouettes of themselves on a DIN-A3 sheet of paper with vibrant colors, little did I expect how extensively their drawings would serve as windows into their worlds where language intersects with personal experiences, emotions, family dynamics and aspirations for the future.

Digital Technologies, Forschung, Jugendliche Medienwelten, Social Media

„Dieses Buch hat mich zerstört!“ – Jugendliche und Bücher

Vor ein paar Wochen wurde ich eingeladen, einen Expert*innenbeitrag zum Thema Jugendliche und Lesen für die Website „Elternbildung“ zu schreiben. Die Redakteurin wollte vor allem Tipps, wie man Kinder und Jugendliche zum Lesen bringt, wenn diese lieber am Handy zocken. Eltern klagen oft, dass ihre Kinder und Jugendlichen zu wenig lesen, und der große Lesefeind scheinen die digitalen Medien zu sein. Hier entsteht eine Konkurrenz von digitalen Medien und dem Buch, die hinterfragt werden muss. Zum einen steht das […]

Allgemein, Bildung, Education, Forschung, Gamification, Medienkompetenz

On critical video game literacy – #YouthMediaLife’s newest team member introduces his research interest in a roughly 10-minute video

Depending on your media habits and social network, you may – or may not – be familiar with the image on top. It shows New York Times’ Wordle, a daily word game in which players have to guess a five-letter word in six attempts or fewer. If you have played the game yourself, you are likely familiar with its rules and implicit conventions (such as that there are no pluralized words as solutions) – you may even have tried […]

Digital Technologies, Forschung, Jugendliche Medienwelten

Want to get SuperBetter? Eine Resilienz-App unter der Lupe

Resilienz bedeutet Belastbarkeit und Flexibilität, auch unter widrigen Umständen. Wer wäre das nicht gerne? Die amerikanische App SuperBetter verspricht ca. einer Million User*innen weltweit, ihre psychische Resilienz steigern zu können, wenn sie die App nur regelmäßig nutzen. Wie sieht das aus, was passiert dabei mit mir als User*in, und was bedeutet es für unsere Gesellschaft?

Allgemein, Bildung, Education, Forschung, Wissenschaft

(EME)MUSIC to a Researcher’s Ears: Identifying a new Research Gap

Beethoven (German), Brahms (German), Liszt (Hungarian) – many of the composers that we associate with Vienna are not, in fact, originally from the “city of music”, or even from Austria. In fact, people have been coming to Vienna to learn and to play music for centuries; it can be argued that musical education in Austria (particularly in Vienna and Salzburg) has a long-standing tradition of internationalisation that goes much further back than the recent strategic trends in higher education […]

Allgemein, CoVid19, Forschung, Identity, Jugendliche Medienwelten, Medienkompetenz

Ein Pilot:innenprojekt: Create your „own“ Avatar

Fragestellungen zu Covid-Zeiten: Nicht erst seit geraumer Zeit ist die Grenze zwischen dem, was öffentlich oder Öffentlichkeit meint im Unterschied zu dem was privat oder Privatheit bedeutet, verschwommen. 1 Dazu mögen verschiedenste Sphären des Digitalen und die Unumgänglichkeit der Digitalisierung, oder Mediatisierung ihren Beitrag geleistet haben. Diese provisorische, weil praktisch nur mehr sprachlich haltbare Grenzziehung und das Faktum des gegenwärtig andauernden Zustandes einer Pandemie führten uns vor die Dringlichkeit die Frage nach dem Körper zu stellen. Eine Frage zu […]

Allgemein, Forschung, Jugendliche Medienwelten, Konferenz #YouthMediaLife 2021, Neue Normalitäten, Uni Wien, Wissenschaft

#YML21 Conference Impressions

Wir haben unsere persönlichen Eindrücke der interdisziplinären Konferenz #YouthMediaLife 2021, die vom 29.03.21 bis 01.04.21 auf einer digitalen Eventplattform abgehalten wurde, zusammengefasst. Lisza-Sophie Neumeier #YML21 Conference Report Ariane Manutscheri Amadea Brenner These days are all about challenges. And about making things work. Twelve hours after #YouthMediaLife 2021 became a material space in an immaterial world, frizzy clanks of ink being swept onto paper hover above a sheet of crinkled paper. My declared plan: telling a story that is not […]

Allgemein, Bildung, Forschung, Jugendliche Medienwelten, Konferenz #YouthMediaLife 2021

Learning English for School, Relearning it for Life

Mainstream approaches to second language acquisition are outdated. They perpetuate the idea that mastery of a foreign language equals speaking and writing it like native speakers do. It is questionable whether this goal is achievable, even more questionable whether it is desirable. Do students really need to sterilize their output in the foreign language, to remove their own footprint, their accent, personality, and linguacultural heritage when communicating via a foreign language? In short, is it really the case that […]