Exploring the connections between watching Asian American YouTubers, racial identity, and self-esteem.

McCullough, Keiko M.; Wong, Y. Joel; Deng, Kuo

doi:10.1037/aap0000218

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“…One possible reason for this finding is that beauty-related YouTube videos can impact a viewer’s self-esteem both positively and negatively. This finding aligns with a previous study that suggested that YouTube videos can both hurt and help the viewer’s self-esteem based on their understanding and relatability to the beauty-related YouTube content creators [ 66 ]. However, another possibility is that YouTube users comment on their existing self-esteem levels when viewing YouTube content and may not be influenced by the videos themselves.…”

Section: Studysupporting

confidence: 92%

Adolescent Health on Social Media and the Mentorship of Youth Investigators: Five Content Analysis Studies Conducted by Youth Investigators

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Although the literature on adolescent health includes studies that incorporate youth perspectives via a participatory design, research that is designed, conducted, and presented by youth remains absent. This paper presents the work of 5 youth investigators on the intersecting topics of adolescent health and social media. Each of these youths was equipped with tools, knowledge, and mentorship for scientifically evaluating a research question. The youths developed a research question that aligned with their interests and filled a gap that they identified in the literature. The youths, whose projects are featured in this paper, designed and conducted their own research project, drafted their own manuscript, and revised and resubmitted a draft based on reviewer input. Each youth worked with a research mentor; however, the research questions, study designs, and suggestions for future research were their own.

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Section: Studysupporting

confidence: 92%

Adolescent Health on Social Media and the Mentorship of Youth Investigators: Five Content Analysis Studies Conducted by Youth Investigators

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“…For some AAM, however, shame fostered social isolation and deterred help-seeking. Fortunately, promising models of online support groups for AAM (Chang & Yeh, 2003) are available, as are social media and other virtual platforms through which to disseminate untold stories of AAM’s lived experiences (McCullough et al, 2021) while circumventing biased mainstream institutional structures.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Asian American Men’s Gendered Racial Socialization and Fragmented Masculinity: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

Keum,

Ahn,

Choi

et al. 2023

The Counseling Psychologist

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We investigated the messages, ideals, and critical experiences that constitute gendered racial socialization for Asian American men (AAM) throughout their development. We employed interpretive phenomenology to analyze interview data from 15 sociodemographically diverse AAM. We identified seven themes: (a) intergenerational parental ideologies, (b) geographic and neighborhood influences, (c) multilevel gendered racism, (d) silencing of gendered racial experiences, (e) survival by identity erasure, (f) rare experiences of affirmation, and (g) fragmented masculinity. Results illustrated a social developmental ecology of highly adverse lifetime experiences—comprised of gendered racism, shame and internalized oppression, thwarted attempts to perform hegemonic masculinity ideals, and minimal access to communities and resources for AAM’s identity affirmation in the United States—that may engender fragmented masculinity, or identity disintegration beleaguered by incommensurable gendered expectations across heritage ethnic and dominant cultures. Implications include systemic interventions to eliminate gendered racism and promote narratives and socialization practices that affirm AAM.

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“…Black emerging adults may engage with content, groups/forums, and social interactions that favorably represent their racial group in order to develop more positive racial identities. For instance, Asian American emerging adults who watched Asian American YouTubers more frequently were more satisfied with and felt more positively about their own racial identity (McCullough et al., 2021). It may be that, for those emerging adults for whom being Black is an important and positive part of their identity, using Twitter identity explorations entails selectively seeking out and connecting with other individual Black users.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Volpe,

Buhrman,

Boaheng

et al. 2023

Journal of Media Psychology

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Black emerging adults in the United States make up a significant proportion of Twitter users and social media is an important developmental context. Media research has examined Black populations’ Twitter use and developmental research has considered social media writ large, but less research exists on Black emerging adults’ developmental uses of Twitter. This mixed methods study (1) traced reasons for Black emerging adults’ Twitter use to developmental aspects of emerging adulthood, and (2) explored whether these reasons differ by online and developmental characteristics. Data were collected from 203 Black emerging adults. Both qualitative (i.e., open-ended response) and quantitative (i.e., self-report questionnaire) data were collected via an online survey. Six qualitative categories described participants’ motivation for using Twitter: relationships, identity exploration, independence, financial possibilities, recreation, and coping and wellness. Participants who used Twitter for independence had higher critical media literacy. Participants who used Twitter for recreation and for identity explorations felt more positively about being Black and differed in other aspects of their racial identity. Findings suggest that Twitter is used by Black emerging adults to achieve developmental goals and that the Twitter empowers Black users to explore their racial identity in meaningful ways.

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Exploring the connections between watching Asian American YouTubers, racial identity, and self-esteem.

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

Adolescent Health on Social Media and the Mentorship of Youth Investigators: Five Content Analysis Studies Conducted by Youth Investigators

Adolescent Health on Social Media and the Mentorship of Youth Investigators: Five Content Analysis Studies Conducted by Youth Investigators

Asian American Men’s Gendered Racial Socialization and Fragmented Masculinity: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

“Speak[ing] My Mind”

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