The rise of modern socio‐digital technologies has fundamentally changed the everyday environments in which young people communicate with each other and cultivate interests. To gain a more sophisticated understanding of this phenomenon, this study provides in‐depth, qualitative insights into adolescents' experiences of their socio‐digital developmental ecologies. The 15 interview participants were recruited based on a previously conducted questionnaire. The semi‐structured theme interview addressed the socio‐digital aspects of the participants' interest‐driven behaviours and related networks with the aid of participant‐generated egocentric maps. The data not only qualitatively enrich the picture on adolescents' friendship‐ and interest‐driven socio‐digital participation but also provide new perspectives on the phenomena through the added network‐layer of analysis. The youth seem to vary in their motivational profiles related to their participation and the potential relevant psychological background factors for this variation are considered. Educational implications of these results are discussed when it comes to effective student engagement and connected learning.

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从普遍的社会数字兴趣和青少年相关网络参与的性质中学到的关于学生参与的经验教训

现代社会数字技术的兴起从根本上改变了年轻人相互交流和培养兴趣的日常环境。为了对这种现象有更深入的了解，本研究对青少年的社会数字发展生态学经验提供了深入，定性的见解。根据先前进行的问卷调查，招募了15名面试参与者。半结构化主题访谈在参与者生成的以自我为中心的地图的帮助下，解决了参与者兴趣驱动行为和相关网络的社会数字方面。这些数据不仅在质量上丰富了青少年的情况，友谊和兴趣驱动的社会数字参与，但也通过附加的网络分析层，为现象提供了新的视角。青年人的动机与他们的参与有关，似乎有所不同，并考虑了这种变异的潜在相关心理背景因素。当涉及有效的学生参与和关联学习时，将讨论这些结果的教育意义。