Young People in Digital Environments

Edited by Terhi-Anna Wilska, Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä and Jussi Nyrhinen, Senior Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä and University Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland

• Contents1 Digital youth in a digital world – opportunities andconstraints: an introduction 1Terhi-Anna Wilska and Jussi NyrhinenPART I YOUNG PEOPLE’S AGENCY IN PUBLIC ANDPRIVATE DIGITAL COMMUNICATION2 Young people as audiences, consumers and participants indigital news and information environments 12Niina Sormanen and Hanna Reinikainen3 Growing up together with artificial intelligence: distributionof agency in commercial digital environments 28Jussi Nyrhinen and Eero Rantala4 Careful or carefree? Young people and information nontransparency on social media 41Katerina Tsetsura, Vilma Luoma-aho and Eero Rantala5 Digital communication between young people and parents: atale of two studies 65Jodi Dworkin and Xiaoran Sun6 Everyday digital parenting: datafication, mediation andsharenting 81Ana Jorge, Francisca Porfírio and Rita GrácioPART II YOUNG PEOPLE AS DIGITAL CONSUMERS ANDFINANCIAL ACTORS7 ICT engagement and other factors associated withadolescents’ financial literacy: evidence from PISA 97Gintautas Silinskas, Kati Laine and Arto K. Ahonen8 Did financial identity moderate young adults’ social mediause and financial well-being during COVID-19? 120Mette Ranta, Lijun Li and Joyce Serido9 Digital agency and vulnerability: a study on young adultconsumers in personalised advertising ecosystems 140Mikko Laamanen, Erlend Kok, Arne Dulsrud and Dag Slettemeås10 Factors preventing young people from protecting theircommercial privacy in digital environments 159Sonali Srivastava11 Pay to play: the ideology of microtransactions and loot boxesin video games 172Christopher McMahon12 The gig economy in the digital era: platform work as a crutchfor precarity? 187Julia NuckolsPART III RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNGPEOPLE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS13 Problematic online behaviours during COVID-19: emergingrisks and concerns 202Anu Sirola14 AI magnified inequalities: bias, (un)fairness anddiscrimination resulting from the use of AI-basedtechnologies in the education sector 218Maris Männiste and Andra Siibak15 Making a life through digital (in-)securities: the entanglementof risks and skills in teen refugees’ digital lives 233Myria Georgiou, Leen d’Haenens, Alia Zaki, VerónicaDonoso and Emilie Bossens16 Digital maturity – enabling a beneficial use of digitaltechnologies by children and adolescents 250Franziska Laaber, Teresa Koch, Arnd Florack and Marco Hubert17 Towards the digital future of AI generations: a conclusion 269Terhi-Anna Wilska and Jussi Nyrhinen

‘At a time when both policy and academic debates about young people’s digital lives are often polarised, I welcome this nuanced and carefully researched account of young people’s multiple expressions of agency – individual, shared, distributed and constrained – across a challenging range of digital and increasingly-automated contexts.’