ABSTRACT

Young people’s participation in online and mobile media practices poses challenges for health promotion practitioners and sexuality educators. Adult professionals are often personally unfamiliar with ‘controversial’ social and mobile media practices, such as the production and sharing of digital self-portraits (or selfies). This chapter reflects on professional development activities conducted with adults working in the fields of sexuality education and health promotion. It suggests that theoretical and practical approaches grounded in the disciplines of media and cultural studies can promote an understanding of media practice which implicitly recognises young people’s rights to access technologies as digital and sexual citizenship.