Journal
JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages 560-576Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1868183
Keywords
COVID-19; sexual minority women; college students; social media; social drinking
Funding
- UCSF Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE2) [5R25HL126146-06]
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This study utilized focus groups to explore how sexual minority college women engage with social media to connect with peers and learn about COVID-19, and found that during shelter-in-place, there was an increase in engagement with social media for community and alcohol-related content as a way to combat isolation, boredom, and the general stress of coping with COVID-19.
Social media serves as a key mechanism for sexual minority young adults to connect with peers and to learn about COVID-19. We utilized focus groups to explore how sexual minority gender expansive college women (N= 28) engage with social media, including alcohol-related content on social networking sites. Two focus groups were held in-person during the month before the campus closed on March 10, 2020 due to a shelter-in-place mandate. Focus groups were then moved online, and also assessed how engagement with social media, including alcohol-related content, changed in response to COVID-19 at one month and two months into shelter-in-place. Using social media to connect with sexual and gender minority (SGM) content and community was a prominent theme across the three cohorts of data collection. Social drinking via social networking sites became increasingly prominent during shelter-in-place as a way to combat isolation, boredom, and the general stress of coping with COVID-19.
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