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Lost in cyberspace?

Lost in cyberspace?. Growing up in a digital age 5 th April, 2014. Michèle Bartlett Chair UKCP Faculty for the Psychological Health of Children. http:// html url. 2002: First Blackberry introduced to the market 2004: Facebook founded 2007: First Apple iPhone released

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Lost in cyberspace?

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  1. Lost in cyberspace? Growing up in a digital age 5th April, 2014 Michèle Bartlett Chair UKCP Faculty for the Psychological Health of Children

  2. http:// • html • url

  3. 2002: First Blackberry introduced to the market • 2004: Facebook founded • 2007: First Apple iPhone released • 2008: First Android phones (Google, HTC) • 2009: First references to “sexting” appear • 2010: Askfm launched • 2011: Instagram is named iPhone app of the year • 2014: Tumblr hosts 174.2 million blogs The Digital revolution

  4. On June 13, 2013, WhatsApp announced on Twitter that they had reached their new daily record by processing 27 billion messages • In 2013, the word of the year was “Selfie” • Facebook paid $19,000,000,000 for WhatsApp in February 2014 What now?

  5. Social media as a “moving landscape” • Different profiles for different contexts • “Impression management” • How young people understand “privacy” • Networked“publics” exist as both real and imagined Negotiating development

  6. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online • Only one in ten victims will report it to a trusted adult • Girls are approximately twice as likely to be victims • Bullying victims are 2-9 times more likely to consider suicide Cyberbullying

  7. You Don't Know Me (dissociative anonymity) • You Can't See Me (invisibility) • See You Later (asynchronicity) • It's All in My Head (solipsistic introjection) • It's Just a Game (dissociative imagination) • We're Equals (minimizing authority) • Altering Self Boundary The Online disinhibition effect

  8. Is it bullying or is it “drama”? • Discussion not surveillance • Social process • Increased visibility • Framing as bullying institutes a “blame” culture • Understanding how they fit into the broader world Understanding the drama

  9. “The exchange of sexual messages or images” • Biggest threat is from peers • Often coercive • Gender-specific risks • Is part of a culture of wider sexual pressures on children and young people • Affects even younger children Sexting

  10. Anyone filming or taking sexual pictures of a person under 18 years of age and sharing them could be charged with a criminal offence such as distributing child pornography(includes downloading an image or opening an attachment on an e mail) • A photograph, film, video recording or electronic image shall, if it shows a person under age and is indecent, be treated as an indecent photograph, film, video recording or electronic image Inadvertent criminals

  11. Generation porn?

  12. Over half of 11-14 year olds have viewed pornography, with four out of of ten of those saying it has affected their relationships with others their age • Three quarters of 11-14 year olds described their reaction to watching pornography as disturbed, upset, worried, excited • Pornographic material often contains violent portrayals of sex • Boys are particularly primed for “novelty seeking” in a way that prizes pornographic imagery over “real” relationships Young people and pornography

  13. Use of technology did not predict BMI • Users of the internet had better reading skills than non users • Video gaming promotes brain growth in areas related to spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning • Long term studies correlate an increase in conduct disorders with excessive TV viewing but not with electronic games • More than 70% of on line gamers play with a friend and multiplayer games become virtual social communities Super Mario and all that

  14. Snapchat

  15. Social media alters the landscape of the “cool space” • Video sharing, blogging and microblogging • From “finding” friends to connecting with friends • Technology offers new social possibilities • Preoccupation is less with technology and more with friendships Same networks, different space

  16. Current narrative assumes that all young people are “digital natives” • How to empower young people to engage critically with unmediated information • Censorship does not allow for personal evaluation of data • Young people are using digital technology for experimentation and exploration Digital natives?

  17. “Many of the most important things in the evolution of the Net were invented not by professors, but by students” • Political engagement: MalalaYousafzai • Positive campaigning: End FGM campaign • Empowerment: Twitter campaigns • Finding a voice: The “never seconds” blog • Finding an audience: You Tube A Platform for Innovation

  18. Technology simply mirrors and magnifies many aspects of everyday life, good and bad”

  19. References • Bowen L (2014) “Video game play may promote learning, health, social benefits, review finds” Monitor on Psychology www.apamonitor-digital.org/apamonitor/201402?folio=57#pg9, • Boyd, D. (2014) “It’s complicated. The Social lives of networked teens”. New Haven/London: Yale University Press. • www.dosomething.org • Daily Mirror (2014) “Kids Age 6 are copying GTA Rapes” Daily Mirror, 13thFebruary • Englander, E “Digital self-harm: Frequency, Type, Motivations and Outcomes” Report of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Centre, June 2012 • Extract from criminal code (Cap 9) of the Laws of Malta • Goffman, E (1959) “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”. Garden City, NY. : Doubleday • www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/24/female-genital-mutilation-fahma-meets-michael-gove • Jackson et al.(2011) “Internet use, videogame playing and cell phone use as predictors of children’s BMI, body weight, academic performance and social and overall self-esteem”. Computers in Human Behaviour. Vol 27. . Issue 1 599-604 • Madden, M. et al. “Teens, Social Media and Privacy” Pew Internet and American Life Project. May 2013 www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy.aspx • Naughton, J. (1999) “A Brief History of the Future: the origins of the internet”. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson • www.neverseconds.blogspot.co.u • www.pewinternet.org/2011/11/09/teens-kindness-and-cruelty-on-social-network-sites • Prensky, M. (2001) “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”. NCB University Press. Vol 9, no.5 • Ringrose J, Gill R, Livingstone S, Harvey L, (2012) A qualitative study of children, young people and “sexting”: a report prepared for the NSPCC. London: NSPCC • Suler,J (2004) “The on-line disinhibition effect”. Cyberpsychology and behaviour, 7, 321-326 • Sunday Times (2013) “Generation Porn” Sunday Times News Review, 16thJune • Wilson, Gary “The great porn experiment” at TEDx Glasgow, May 2012 • www.youngminds.org.uk/news/blog/1854_safer_internet_day_porn_affecting_11-year-olds

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