Fridays for Future: How Digital Platforms Shape Youth Connection and Activism-Clare Russell 23115563

This presentation explores how youth communities are formed and sustained through social media, using the Fridays for Future climate movement as a case study. It argues that online participation is shaped by platform affordances such as hashtags, visibility, and algorithms, which influence how connection, identity, and collective action emerge. Rather than being fixed or purely interaction-based, digital communities are continuously produced through ongoing engagement and platform-driven circulation.