Utilizing social media for social work: insights from clients in online youth services.

This study explored and conceptualised service users' experiences in online outreach projects supported by the Hong Kong SAR government. Fifteen active users were interviewed. The study used thematic analysis to explore service users' experiences that might not have been possible without technology....

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Publicado en:Journal of Social Work Practice Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 157 - 173
Autores principales: Chan, Chitat, Ngai, Steven Sek-yum
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2019
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          Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
          Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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        Hong Kong (China)
        Social isolation
        Communication
        Consumer attitudes
        Health services accessibility
        Social case work
        Social services
        Access to information
        Social media
        Adolescence
        Psychology
        Online information services
        Research funding
        Thematic analysis
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          Communication
          Consumer attitudes
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          Social services
          Access to information
          Social media
          Adolescence
          Psychology
          Hong Kong (China)
          Other Individual and Family Services
          Online information services
          Research funding
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        affordance
        hidden youth
        outreach
        social work
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      ab: This study explored and conceptualised service users' experiences in online outreach projects supported by the Hong Kong SAR government. Fifteen active users were interviewed. The study used thematic analysis to explore service users' experiences that might not have been possible without technology. Participant utterances were non-mutually-exclusively tagged with a specific theme. Each utterance reflected an aspect of user experience which combined a technical component with a service-need component. Six themes were identified, including: (i) Personalised newsfeeds help identify service information and news, (ii) Online status indicators improve service accessibility, (iii) Online communications enable a disinhibition effect, (iv) Asynchronous communications facilitate continual feedback loops, (v) Incomplete communicative modalities may cause misunderstanding and (vi) Asynchronous communication may disrupt conversations. The findings reveal that there are middle-level concepts between broad social work concepts and ever-changing technology. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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