Gender-specific Subjectivation Processes of Young People in the Informal Digital Learning and Educational Space YouTube

YouTube is one of the most popular Internet offerings for young people in Germany and serves many of them as an informal learning and educational space for researching information for leisure interests, school and training (Feierabend et al., 2021; Wolf, 2015). YouTube is a space that is structured along stereotypical notions of gender (Döring, 2019; Prommer et al., 2019). Here, young people receive performative processes of doing gender. At the same time, YouTube offers space for niches and ruptures that serve to deconstruct established ideas of gender (Döring, 2019). The dissertation examines the extent to which gender-specific subjectivation processes take place in the reception of educationally relevant YouTube videos by young people. To this end, guided interviews with young people are evaluated based on Butler’s (2001) concept and theory of the subject. The aim is to counteract inequalities in educational opportunities (Bremen School Act and Bremen School Administration Act, 2005).