Keynote presentation to the Federation of Detached Youth Work in November 2008.

1. Youth Work in a Online
Networked Setting

3. Brave new world?

4. Brave virtual world?

5. Brave networked world

6. Brave blended world

7. The Long View
Slide by Yaacov Iland (igloo.org) Creative Commons BY-NC-ND

8. The Long View
Slide by Yaacov Iland (igloo.org) Creative Commons BY-NC-ND

12. A youth work world?

13. Youth work is based on the
voluntary participation of
young people...

14. Youth work is based on the
voluntary participation of
young people...

15. Youth work is based on the
voluntary participation of
young people...

16. Youth work starts from
where young people
are...

17. Youth work starts from
where young people
are...

18. Youth work starts from
where young people
are...

19. ...and goes beyond...

20. ...and goes beyond...

21. ...and goes beyond...

22. ...and goes beyond...

23. ...and goes beyond...

24. Youth work is associational
and works with peer networks...

25. Youth work is associational
and works with peer networks...

26. Youth work addresses young
people as young people - not
through adult imposed labels
and categories....

27. Youth work addresses young
people as young people - not
through adult imposed labels
and categories....
Add as Friend

28. Youth work addresses young
people as young people - not
through adult imposed labels
and categories....
Add as Friend
Privacy Settings

29. Youth work draws on a
relationship of mutual
trust...

30. Youth work draws on a
relationship of mutual
trust...
See Profile

31. Youth work is concerned with
tipping the balance of power in
favour of young people...

32. Youth work is concerned with
tipping the balance of power in
favour of young people...

33. ?

36. Social Network Sites (SNS) present young people with a wide range of
opportunities and risks. Opportunities and risks go hand in hand. The
opportunities and risks of most concern to young people (keeping in
touch with friends and bullying respectively) are different from those
most frequently highlighted in the mainstream media.

37. Young people need support to develop the appropriate resources and
resilience to navigate risk and to make the most of opportunities on
SNS, and peer groups need opportunities to negotiate and develop positive
norms for their interaction on SNS.

38. Many of the reasons young people may encounter risks through SNS
have roots outside of the technology, in issues of young people's
personal and social development. The appropriate response to SNS
risk may not involve technology.

39. Social networking sites can be made safer when youth workers, as
professional and trusted adults, actively engage with them.

40. Youth work can engage with SNS as one or more of:
 an environment in which young people need support and guidance;
 a marketing tool for promoting youth work opportunities and activities;
 a communications tool for interacting with young people and
groups of young people;
 a youth work tool for promoting young peoples creative expression,
political engagement and wider personal and social development;
 a starting point to work from in helping young people develop their
skills, interests and capacities across a range of issues and areas;
 a platform for new forms of online youth work;

41. Youth work methods have a particular contribution to make in
encouraging and supporting young people to adopt safe and positive
online behaviours.

42. Online social networks have a unique and exciting contribution
to make to detached youth work.

49. ?

50. ?
http://detached.youthworkonline.org.uk

51. E-mail: tim@practicalparticipation.co.uk
Blog: http://www.timdavies.org.uk | Tel: 07834 856 303
Youth Work and Social Networking:
http://blogs.nya.org.uk/ywsn
Youth Work Online community:
http://www.youthworkonline.org.uk

90. Three levels

91. Awarenesslevels in youth work
Three of SNS

92. Awarenesslevels in youth work
Three of SNS
Promotion of Youth Work through SNS

93. Awarenesslevels in youth work
Three of SNS
Promotion of Youth Work through SNS
Using SNS as a Youth
Work Tool
New forms of
‘Youth Work 2.0’