USING GENDER SCHEMA THEORY TO EXAMINE GENDER EQUITY IN COMPUTING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
In: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 37-54
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In: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 37-54
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 347-365
ISSN: 1461-7315
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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