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Flores Moreno, Carmen Leticia; Conde Flores, Alberto y Arellano Ceballos, Aideé Consuelo (Coords.) (2021). Jóvenes y violencia. Diálogos, travesías y desafíos. Universidad de Colima.
Universidad de Colima, Dirección General de Publicaciones
Acceso libre: http://ww.ucol.mx/publicacionesenlinea/?docto=514

Resumen:
Introducción. El incremento de la popularidad que ha tenido Internet en los últimos años ha generado cambios importantes en las formas en que las personas realizan búsquedas de información de salud. Esto no sólo sucede en la búsqueda que hacen los adultos sino que también tiene su repercusión en los jóvenes y adolescentes. Objetivos. La investigación ha tenido dos objetivos fundamentales: conocer los criterios de calidad, selección y acreditación de la información de salud que se difunde en las webs y averiguar cómo los jóvenes buscan información de salud en Internet. Metodología. El estudio responde a un paradigma cualitativo y cuantitativo, como maneras complementarias de percibir la misma realidad, basándonos en un estudio holístico desde la integralidad y su contexto. Así, hemos realizado un análisis de contenido de los recursos digitales con información de salud; entrevistas en profundidad con responsables de las webs; focus group con adolescentes de bachillerato y universitarios; para finalizar con un estudio etnográfico y un estudio cuantitativo basado en la realización de cuestionarios cerrados al segmento de población estudiado. Resultados. Los responsables de las webs con información de salud para la población más joven son conscientes de la importancia de su labor y la responsabilidad que recae sobre ellos. Son conscientes de que la información no debe ser enfocada desde un punto de vista paternalista, sino con objetividad. Los jóvenes y adolescentes consideran que la web ideal con información de salud debería ser muy práctica y visual, con información accesible y fiable, que permita interactividad con los usuarios y donde se distingan claramente las opiniones de los usuarios y los consejos de los profesionales. Discusión y Conclusiones. La necesidad de adquirir hábitos saludables se ha revelado como un tema que genera gran interés entre los jóvenes y que tiene un componente cultural: se aprende principalmente en el hogar, se refuerza en el colegio y en las relaciones con los grupos de iguales. Los medios de comunicación juegan también un papel importante a la hora de que los jóvenes interpreten la salud.

Abstract:
Introduction. The increase of Internet’s popularity in recent years has dramatically changed the ways in which people carry out health information searches. This is not limited to the searches made by adults but also have a repercussion on young adults and teenagers. Objectives. The research had two main objectives: to know the quality, selection and accreditation criteria of the health information which is communicated in the web pages and verify how young people search for health information on Internet. Method. The study responds to a qualitative and quantitative paradigm, as complementary ways of perceiving the same reality, based on a holistic study from its entirety and its context. Thus, we have carried out an analysis of the contents of the digital resources with health information; in-depth interviews with the heads of web pages; focus group with teenagers from advanced secondary education and university students; concluding with an ethnographic study and quantitative study based on the execution of closed questionnaires to the analysed population segment. Results. The heads of the web pages with health information for the younger population are aware of the importance of their labour and the responsibility which corresponds to them. They are aware that information should not be focused from a paternalistic perspective but with objectivity. The young adults and teenagers consider that the ideal web page with health information must be very practical and visual, with accessible and reliable information, which permits interactivity with the users and where user opinions and professional health care advice are clearly distinguished. Discussion and Conclusion. The need to acquire healthy habits has emerged as a topic which generates major interest among young people and it has a cultural component: it is primarily learned in the home, reinforced at school and in the relations with peer groups. The mass media also play a major role in the way in which young people interpret health.

The aesthetic expressions produced and reproduced within post-war spectacular youth (sub)cultures used to be seen as a display of resistance to and subversion of ‘social order’, perceived as opressive of youth life experiences and chances. Under the traditional subculturalist paradigm, both artefacts or performances were subsumed to the class status of their young practicioners and seen as ideological expression of their dominated and disadvantadged social position. Nowadays, however, the stylistic resources used in youth scenes has taken on new meanings for which the concept of resistance is not enough and/or adequate to explain. Therefore, departing from a post-subcultural approach, this essay intends to highlight the social changes recently occurred in the political culture of spectacular youth scenes and, consequently, to contribute to overcome resistance as nuclear concept on the debate, relocating it towards the concept of existence. Following this idea, and to close this essa...

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global event. Physical distancing and other restrictions imposed by national and local governments all over the world to contain the spread of the virus almost certainly have had a significant impact on young people, who are more sensitive to peer interaction and social stimuli than adults. This article sets out to investigate the lifestyles of young Italians during the first lockdown, with the aim of exploring how leisure becomes the object of a negotiation between social needs, regulatory requirements, and a situation of crisis. To investigate these aspects, we present the results of a quantitative study conducted on a large group of individuals in Italy, focusing on young Italians’ lifestyles and leisure activities, together with an overview of prevailing moods. Our findings indicate that young people activated various adaptation strategies in response to the crisis with possible significant effects on lifestyles and well-being.

In response to new and exacerbated challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous children and youth in Canada have developed innovative and holistic solutions to amplify their voices, continue cultural engagement and combat social isolation for themselves and their communities as a whole. In this analysis, we have selected three Indigenous philosophical tenets as an ethical orientation for discussion of how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the well-being of Indigenous young people. The guiding values of interconnected relationships, holism and Indigenous-informed restorative justice help us interpret existing pandemic-specific literature and identify, define and prioritize considerations of child and youth well-being from an Indigenous-centred worldview. This analysis can (a) help inform future pandemic measures affecting Indigenous young people and (b) foster similar considerations for Indigenous communities in other regions of the world.

This article problematizes the assumption that national policies have a direct impact on youth participation at the local level and analyses the relationships between local forms of youth participation and local and national policies. Relying on data from a EU project funded under the HORIZON 2020 programme, the article focuses on formally institutionalized settings of youth participation and elaborates local constellations of youth participation in six European cities. These constellations may be referred to as regimes of youth participation as they reflect wider structures of power and knowledge that influence the way in which young people’s practices in public spaces and their claims of being part of society are recognized. However, the analysis reveals that rather deducing it from the model of welfare regimes, such a typology needs to be developed starting from the local level and should consider the ways in which different relationships between local youth policies and national...

The simplicity, truth and goodness are what young people seek in the
depth of their hearts, as all layers of their brain constantly absorb
the deluge of images and information from the never-ending cyberspace,
through the solitude of mock communication. Their youthful impulse to
change the world is not infrequently contradicted by the hypocrisy of
the powerful of the earth and, even more frequently, their revolution
is drowned by the relentless interest of the powerful. Therefore they
are looking for sincerity, joy and finally to see something that is true in the face of those who experience it.

COVID-19 has resulted in a global public health crisis. Measures adopted by governments across the world to reduce transmission have resulted in the closure of educational institutions and workplaces and reduced social interaction. The aim of the article is to reflect on the consequences of the COVID-19 global pandemic for the lives of young people from different social groups, with a special focus on education. It is a desk-based review of empirical research that has emerged in the wake of COVID-19 that has explored the impact of the control measures adopted, resulting in ‘learning loss’ and the widening of the ‘learning gap’ among students. The review shows that rather than utilizing the current situation to tackle pre-existing social inequalities in education, current debates often narrowly focus on immediate rather than long-term measures. The article calls for a broader research agenda on the short- and long-term compensatory measures needed to re-engage students, especially th...

Social exclusion has been identified as a prominent factor informing our understanding of young people involvement in gang life, violence and crime. While the literature on social exclusion focuses on the education and employment systems, there is a limited literature regarding the role played by correctional institutions in exacerbating social exclusion. This article explores the reciprocal relationships between young people involved in the drug trade in Israel and various educational and correctional services in their community. It focuses on a term commonly articulated by the youth, ‘not seeing with the eyes’, which they use to describe themselves as consciously, purposefully and openly ignoring and flouting societal norms. However, the educational and correctional services present a similar attitude, manifesting institutional blindness in connection with the youth and hence contributing to the double exclusion of young men. The article exposes the practices and processes through which this double exclusion takes place.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused countries around the world to initiate societal lockdowns, especially during the spring of 2020. This article focuses on online gaming’s role in young people’s lives during the lockdown in Denmark. Informed by a practice theoretical framework, the analyses of 35 interviews with young people (16–19 years) examine how gaming proved to be something to do in a situation of nothing to do. The analyses find that the young people’s gaming practices were beneficial (a) in allowing the young people to maintain a social life and (b) in providing a legitimate social space for maintaining friendships and/or coping with boredom. The findings demonstrate that young people who engage with online gaming are capable of adapting to fundamental changes to society to fulfil their social needs and aspirations, including during a pandemic.

The study investigated the body image and quality of life of young and middle aged married women after mastectomy. Previous studies have shown the effect of age on the body image and quality of life of breast cancer women (Pakseresht, Ingle and Gang 2011, Avis, Crawford &Manuel, 2005, Schover, 1994). The present investigation took a
purposive sample of 20 young and 20 middle-aged married mastectomy patients from oncology department of two government hospitals Lahore, and asked them to complete Body Image Scale (Hopwood , Fletcher, Lee & Al Ghazal 2001) and Quality of life scale (QOL)by ( Ferrell, Dow & Grant1995). t-test for independent samples was used to analyze the data. Results indicated no significant differences between young and middle aged married Pakistani mastectomy patients in terms of body image, quality of life and on its subscales- physical wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, fear, distress, social concerns and spiritual wellbeing. The study provides baseline measures for doctors, psychologists, caregivers and breast cancer patients on body image
and quality of life indices in Pakistan.

Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM) grew from applied research exploring emerging design methods and practices to support new generation product and interface design. The products and interfaces are concerned with: the context of ubiquitous computing and ambient technologies and the need for greater empathy in the pre-programmed behaviour of the ‘machines’ that populate our lives. Such explorative research in the CfDR has been led by Young, supported by Kyffin, Visiting Professor from Philips Design and sponsored by Philips Design over a period of four years (research funding £87k). DeSForM1 was the first of a series of three conferences that enable the presentation and debate of international work within this field: • 1st European conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM1), Baltic, Gateshead, 2005, Feijs L., Kyffin S. & Young R.A. eds. • 2nd European conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM2), Evoluon, Eindhoven, 2006,...

Clifford Shaw’s (1930) The Jack-Roller is a landmark study of naturalism, ethnography and crime. It is the ‘own story’ of Stanley—a young delinquent in Chicago. Shaw’s series of ethnographic studies on delinquency sought to humanize deviance in opposition to pathological understandings of delinquency. The article looks on the representation of crimes committed and punishment received by young male and female delinquents. Shaw’s argument focuses on structural inequalities and poverty as the cause of deviance; as a result, female delinquency was not explained by sexual promiscuity, although he failed to recognize young women’s vulnerabilities. The second edition of The Jack-Roller introduced by Howard Becker (1966, Introduction. The Jack-Roller: A delinquent boy’s own story, pp. v–xviii) redefined Shaw’s study within the symbolic interactionist tradition. From the 1950s, Shaw and Becker disagreed over the writing of the deviant’s ‘own story,’ the control of the narrative and the autho...

Objective In recent years, it has been focused much attention on gait analysis. Factors such as speed, age
and gender affect gait parameters. The purpose of the present study was to compare the electromyographic
activity pattern of knee two-joint muscles between younger and older subjects in different gait
speeds.
Materials & Methods The method of current study was analytical cross-sectional method in which 15
healthy young men and 15 old men, were selected conveniently. Electromyographic activity of rectus
femoris, biceps femoris, semitendinus and gastrocenemius were recorded during walking with preferred
(100%), slow (80%) and fast (120%) speeds in a 10 meter walkway. Normalized RMSs of muscles were
compared using RM-ANOVA and Tokey’s tests by SPSS 18 software.
Results According to results, RMSs of rectus femoris in midstance (P<0.01) and gastrocenemius in loading
response (P=0.02) phases in all walking speeds were higher in older subjects than in younger ones, and it
increased with speed in both age groups (P<0.01). Biceps femoris RMS in terminal stance at 80% speed,
was lower in older subjects than in younger ones (P=0.01) and it increased with walking speed (P=0.01).
Semitendinus activity in loading and midstance phases at 120% speed was higher in older subjects than
in younger ones (P<0.01), and it increased with speed in both age groups in swing phase (P<0.05).
Conclusion According to the results, older subjects have more muscle co-contraction around knee at high
speed in midstance phase than younger subjects. These age-related changes in muscle activity, leads to
increase in joint stiffness and stability during single support, and probably play a role in reducing push
off power at faster speeds.

In this special edition on popular music, we seek to explore Simon Frith’s (1978, The sociology of rock, London, UK: Constable, p. 39) argument that: ‘Music’s presence in youth culture is established but not its purpose’. ‘Songs that sing the crisis’ captures contemporary accounts, which build upon popular music’s legacy, courage and sheer determination to offer social and cultural critique of oppressive structures or political injustice as they are being lived by young people today. Young people have consistently delivered songs that have focused on struggles for social rights, civil rights, women’s rights and ethnic and sexual minorities rights through creative anger, emotion and resistance, and we know that music matters because we consciously feel the song (DeNora, 2000, Music in everyday life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). However, in the aftermath of the post-2008 global economic and cultural crises, young people, in particular, have faced austerity, social hardship ...

The young people at the centre of Buffy the Vampire Slayer present themselves as an alternative family that contrasts with the programme’s conventional families. This device helps to raise awareness about changing family structures in contemporary Western society, particularly with respect to the family’s capacity to facilitate the development of young people. The series implies that the stability associated with the nuclear family is often illusory and/or achieved at the price of young people’s freedom and agency. The alternative structure, by contrast, answers the call for the ‘democratisation’ of the family (Giddens, 1999) and is coded positively in spite of many weaknesses.