Journal article
“Don’t be dumb—that’s the rule I try to live by”: A closer look at older teens’ online privacy and safety attitudes
New media & society, v 19(3), pp 347-365
Mar 2017
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Abstract
Popular media often characterize youths’ use of social media as overwhelmingly negative, reporting that teens engage in reckless, unsafe behaviors with little thought to their online privacy or safety. Typically, these popular media accounts are based on adults’ prescriptive views of youths’ attitudes and behaviors. Using qualitative methods including background questionnaires and focus groups, we gathered older teens’ attitudes about online privacy and safety to provide a more complete narrative from a teen perspective. Findings suggest that older teens are concerned with their online privacy and feel discomfort with unintended audiences seeing their personal information, yet most feel tension to share personal information with friends. They are less concerned about safety, tending to feel safe online and to employ protective measures, but viewing older and younger generations as less knowledgeable about online safety. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for teaching teens about online privacy and safety.
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- Title
- “Don’t be dumb—that’s the rule I try to live by”: A closer look at older teens’ online privacy and safety attitudes
- Creators
- Denise E Agosto - Drexel University, USAJune Abbas - University of Oklahoma, USA
- Publication Details
- New media & society, v 19(3), pp 347-365
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications; London, England
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000401300300002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85014963893
- Other Identifier
- 991014976888204721
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