However, many Finnish youth workers have found it difficult to grasp what digital media might mean outside of social media, which is why there was demand for the concept of digital youth work to explain the diversity of digitalisation in youth work.
DIGITAL YOUTH WORK
The objectives of digital youth work are two-fold:
The concept of digital youth work first emerged in the Finnish youth work lexicon in the mid 2000s, when European youth work organisations met in Finland to discuss the impact of digitalisation on youth work practices.
The central idea was that the goal of digital youth work must be to strengthen the agency of young people in a digitalised world. However, the concept of digital youth work was not established until a few years later.
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