Research project on how aesthetics and the representation of the psychological suffering of today’s youth has changed in the world of digital transformation.
Mental health currently evolves its own tribes, aeshetics and native terms, providing its own peculiar possibilities of staging and discussing mental issues. The popular «sick style» refers particularly to the teenagers of the Generation Z who use social media as a self-evident part of their social life. In their selfies, statements, pic- tures, videos or memes they experiment with new forms and formats to deal with their inner experiences with- out pathologizing and stigmatizing them. In our ongoing research we are currently trying to investigate and de- termine some of the narratives and aesthetics that char- acterize how adolescents debate about mental health in the digital space. By decoding the information encoded in their pictures and stories we are trying to make the implicit issues and needs more approachable.