Digital Streetwork: Social Work in Digital Space
Chat forums, social media, online communities – the Internet offers many addresses and reference points that can be described as “digital spaces”. There you can meet like-minded people, get information, pursue your interests – or even identify and contact specific groups of people in a very targeted way. This is what social work does. Led by pioneers of “digital street work,” it has discovered the Internet as a means of reaching hard-to-reach or vulnerable target groups.
