The role of social media and technology on the experiences of vulnerable children who have been referred to a specialist sexual abuse unit

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 69-96

Author(s):

Nur Ainiyah

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Information Literacy ◽

New World ◽

Public Domain ◽

Media Ethics ◽

The Public ◽

And Behavior ◽

Media And Technology

Media and technology take us to an era of information literacy. The pattern of communication and conversation on social media recently tends to provoke, shows the low ethics of Indonesian society in in the public domain communication such as social media. It is undeniable that women also took part as a subject in social media, including the Fatayat group in Situbondo. This study emphasizes the empowerment of social media ethics towards fatayat women in Situbondo through media literacy to fight hoax. It was a qualitative-explorative research by examined how fatayat ethics and behavior in communication through social media and how women are ethically empowered through strengthening knowledge media literacy. Social media in fatayat women live brings and forms a new world in interacting and communicating. Manage contents via Facebook shared and published by fatayat members, making them learn literacy. Strengthening social media ethics through media literacy is carried out in various stages, especially through monthly meetings, thematic discussions and the role of women through fatayat

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Image Based Sexual Abuse proclivity and victim blaming: The role of dark personality traits and moral disengagement

Oñati Socio-legal Series ◽

10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1213 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 1179-1197

Author(s):

Afroditi Pina ◽

Alisha Bell ◽

Kimberley Griffin ◽

Eduardo Vasquez

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Sexual Abuse ◽

Moral Disengagement ◽

Dark Triad ◽

Victim Blaming ◽

Personality Profile ◽

Preliminary Validation ◽

English Speaking ◽

Image Based Sexual Abuse

Image Based Sexual Abuse (IBSA) denotes the creation, distribution, and/or threat of distribution of intimate images of another person online without their consent. The present study aims to extend emerging research on perpetration of IBSA with the development and preliminary validation for the moral disengagement in IBSA scale, while also examining the role of the dark triad, sadism, and sexism in a person’s likelihood to perpetrate IBSA. One hundred and twenty English speaking participants (76 women, 44 men; mean age=33 years) were recruited via social media. Machiavellianism and psychopathy were found to predict IBSA proclivity, whilst rivalry narcissism predicted greater feelings of excitement and amusement towards IBSA. Moral disengagement predicted IBSA proclivity and blaming the victim. It was also positively related to greater feelings of amusement and excitement towards IBSA. This suggests a distinct personality profile of IBSA perpetrators, and that moral disengagement mechanisms play a role in facilitating and reinforcing this behaviour.

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Negotiating Reunion in Intercountry Adoption Using Social Media and Technology

The British Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1093/bjsw/bcaa164 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Anne Marie Shier

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Potential Role ◽

Real Life ◽

Intercountry Adoption ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Birth Parents ◽

Birth Family ◽

Media And Technology

Abstract This article focuses on how intercountry adoptees use social media and technology to negotiate and facilitate reunion with their birth families. The qualitative data were drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with eleven adoptees who were internationally adopted to Ireland and have contact with their birth families using social media and technology. The findings from this interpretivist study demonstrate that social media and technology have significantly transformed and can now play a central role in reunion in intercountry adoption. They also suggest that social workers need to be aware of the emerging role of social media and technology in intercountry adoption reunion to develop further knowledge and skills in this area. Specifically, the study indicates that social media and technology have facilitated, ‘normalised’ and casualised aspects of contact with birth family; increased the pace of contact and can pose challenges in navigating contact and boundaries. A key finding of this study relates to the importance of contact with birth siblings and their potential role as mediators and facilitators of contact with birth parents. Participants report that whilst social media and technology have facilitated their contact with birth family, it cannot and does not replace the need for ‘real life’ in-person contact.

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