Keeping Strong: Digital Technology, Participatory Research, and Young People’s Wellbeing Amongst Alice Springs Town Camp Communities

This project report documents work undertaken in Alice Springs as part of the larger project coordinated by researchers at Western Sydney University (‘the University’), called Keeping Strong through Mobiles: Strengths-based approaches to social and emotional health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people using mobile technology (‘Keeping Strong’). Keeping Strong is positioned at the intersection of three primary concerns and their related literatures and bodies of practice: participatory and culturally-strengthening research; digital technologies; and, the wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals. From this position, the project explored what it meant to ask ‘what is the role of digital technology in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons’ wellbeing?’ in two different contexts – Western Sydney in New South Wales, and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.