Youth Sociology in the Digital Era (1) the Brics

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: ASJE014 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee)

Language: English

The advent of digital technology has been associated with profound alterations of professions, lives, and identities of young people, and has resulted in extensive and impactful societal shifts. Youth sociology in the digital era is pivotal, including to understanding the dynamics that will shape the future landscape of global community. Viewed through this lens, we can discern the seeds of social change, conflicts and identify the challenges that must be surmounted to ensure a successful integration of technology and society.

We invite authors from particularly from sociology, and related disciplines, to contribute empirically grounded, theoretically novel and analytically robust research centering around the theme of the production and reproduction of youth in the digital era.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Intergenerational relations and conflicts in the digital era
  • New professions and the employment of the youth in the digital era
  • New forms of production and social relations among youth in the digital era
  • Young migrant workers in the digital era
  • Gendered performance and emotional labor in the digital era
  • Algorithmic management of labour in the digital era
  • Lifestyles, and values of youth in the digital era
  • New phenomena associated with e-commerce and socialmedia (e.g., live-streaming sales, online matchmaking, online gaming, etc. )
Session Organizer:
Natalia WAECHTER, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Austria
Chair:
Chunling LI, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Discussant:
Tom DWYER, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Oral Presentations
The Bts ‘Craze’: Exploring Fandom Among Young Girls on Urban Margins
Sriti GANGULY, India; Smriti SINGH, Indraprastha Institute of Information technology-Delhi, India
“Human Menu”: Understanding Digital Sexual Sociability Among Young People in São Paulo
Jamile GUIMARÃES, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Cristiane CABRAL, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Digitization and the Future for and of Youth
Kiran ODHAV, North West University, South Africa
Distributed Papers
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