Conference proceeding
Understanding the Digital Lives of Youth: Analyzing Media Shared within Safe Versus Unsafe Private Conversations on Instagram
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp 1-14
27 Apr 2022
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Abstract
We collected Instagram Direct Messages (DMs) from 100 adolescents and young adults (ages 13-21) who then flagged their own conversations as safe or unsafe. We performed a mixed-method analysis of the media files shared privately in these conversations to gain human-centered insights into the risky interactions experienced by youth. Unsafe conversations ranged from unwanted sexual solicitations to mental health related concerns, and images shared in unsafe conversations tended to be of people and convey negative emotions, while those shared in regular conversations more often conveyed positive emotions and contained objects. Further, unsafe conversations were significantly shorter, suggesting that youth disengaged when they felt unsafe. Our work uncovers salient characteristics of safe and unsafe media shared in private conversations and provides the foundation to develop automated systems for online risk detection and mitigation.
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- Title
- Understanding the Digital Lives of Youth: Analyzing Media Shared within Safe Versus Unsafe Private Conversations on Instagram
- Creators
- Shiza Ali - Boston UniversityAfsaneh Razi - University of Central FloridaSeunghyun Kim - Georgia Institute of TechnologyAshwaq Alsoubai - University of Central FloridaJoshua Gracie - University of Central FloridaMunmun De Choudhury - Georgia Institute of TechnologyPamela J. Wisniewski - University of Central FloridaGianluca Stringhini - Boston UniversityACM
- Contributors
- Simone Barbosa (Editor) - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroCliff Lampe (Editor) - University of Michigan, USACaroline Appert (Editor) - Université Paris-Saclay, FranceDavid A. Shamma (Editor) - Toyota Research Institute, USASteven Drucker (Editor) - Microsoft Research, USAJulie Williamson (Editor) - University of GlasgowKoji Yatani (Editor) - The University of Tokyo
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp 1-14
- Conference
- CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2022)
- Series
- ACM Conferences
- Publisher
- ACM
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000890212502038
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85130552034
- Other Identifier
- 991021862264704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Information Systems
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