Verkkonevertheless, in our examination of social media use among youth, we identified four themes: (1) disagreements, or “beef,” either starting on social media. Gang literature increasingly reflects the importance of social media in gang lifestyle, as gang members adopt new communicative. Verkkowhile gang violence remains anchored in interpersonal and intergroup interaction, the internet and social media have potentially changed the dynamics of. Verkkothe current research, drawing on the perspectives of a variety of gang observers, investigated to what extent the evolutionary stage of the gang, and the. Verkkowe find that several factors, including the nature of social media activity by the gang (e. g. , extent of activity and who is engaging), are associated. Verkkogangs and the rise of social media.
