ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author have focused on digital media practices that foster and support young people’s health and wellbeing, and he have offered ways to better understand and engage with these – as researchers, health promoters, supporters, and friends. He have argued for greater recognition of young people’s expertise. Throughout, he proposes a need for social and health policy to recognise changing media landscapes and how these relate to shifting cultures of support available to, and practised by, young people. This responds to research that fails to consider young people’s digital media expertise. Young people are embedded in cultures of care, where care is not always sought but is available through everyday networked interactions. To develop better academic understandings of young people’s digital cultures of care, it is necessary to foreground their expertise as informal care practitioners and to listen to how young people currently support each other.
