Caluzzi, G. orcid.org/0000-0003-3203-6123, Fenton, L., Holmes, J. et al. (4 more authors) (2024) ‘90 per cent of the time when I have had a drink in my hand I’m on my phone as well’: a cross-national analysis of communications technologies and drinking practices among young people. New Media & Society, 26 (10). pp. 6120-6140. ISSN 1461-4448
Abstract
Greater use of communication technologies among young people, including mobile phones, social media and communication apps, has coincided with declines in youth alcohol use in many high-income countries. However, little research has unpacked how drinking as a practice within interconnected routines and interactions may be changing alongside these technologies. Drawing on qualitative interviews about drinking with young people aged 16–23 across three similar studies in Australia, the United Kingdom and Sweden, we identify how communication technologies may afford reduced or increased drinking. They may reduce drinking by producing new online contexts, forms of intimacy and competing activities. They may increase drinking by re-organising drinking occasions, rituals and contexts. And they may increase or reduce drinking by enabling greater fluidity and interaction between diverse practices. These countervailing dynamics have likely contributed to shifting drinking patterns and practices for young people that may be obscured beneath the population-level decline in youth drinking.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in New Media and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Affordances; alcohol; communications technology; practice theory; young people |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > Health Sciences School (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number WELLCOME TRUST (THE) 208090/Z/17/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2023 16:27 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2024 08:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14614448221150775 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195704 |