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Title: Teens on Tech: Using an Asynchronous Remote Community to Explore Adolescents' Online Safety Perspectives
As part of a Youth Advisory Board of teens (YAB), a longitudinal and interactive program to engage with teens for adolescent online safety research, we used an Asynchronous Remote Community (ARC) method with seven teens to explore their social media usage and perspectives on privacy on social media. There was a spectrum of privacy levels in our teen participants’ preferred social media platforms and preferences varied depending on their user goals such as content viewing and socializing. They recognized privacy risks they could encounter on social media, hence, actively used privacy features afforded by platforms to stay safe while meeting their goals. In addition, our teen participants designed solutions that can aid users to exercise more granular control over determining what information on their accounts is to be shared with which groups of users. Our findings highlight the need to ensure researchers and social media developers work with teens to provide teen-centric solutions for safer experiences on social media.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2333207
PAR ID:
10486662
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ACM
Date Published:
ISBN:
9798400701290
Page Range / eLocation ID:
45 to 49
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Minneapolis MN USA
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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