Social media and online safety practices of young parents

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152110538
Author(s):  
Devon Greyson ◽  
Cathy Chabot ◽  
Caroline Mniszak ◽  
Jean A Shoveller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Young Parents ◽  
Parental Concerns ◽  
Online Safety ◽  
Young Parent

Studies of parents’ online safety concerns typically centre on information privacy and on worries over unknown third parties preying on children, whereas investigations into youth perspectives on online safety have found young people to focus on threats to safety or reputation by known individuals. The case of youth who are themselves parents raises questions regarding how these differing perspectives are negotiated by individuals who are in dual roles as youth and parents. Using interview and ethnographic observation data from the longitudinal Young Parent Study in British Columbia, Canada, this analysis investigates social media and online safety practices of 113 young parents. Online safety concerns of young parents in this study focused on personal safety, their children’s online privacy and image management. These concerns reflect their dual roles, integrating youth image and information management concerns with parental concerns over the safety and information privacy of their own children.

scholarly journals Household medication safety practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive qualitative study protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e044441
Author(s):  
Tamasine C Grimes ◽  
Sara Garfield ◽  
Dervla Kelly ◽  
Joan Cahill ◽  
Sam Cromie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Medication Safety ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Patient And Public Involvement ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

IntroductionThose who are staying at home and reducing contact with other people during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be at greater risk of medication-related problems than the general population. This study aims to explore household medication practices by and for this population, identify practices that benefit or jeopardise medication safety and develop best practice guidance about household medication safety practices during a pandemic, grounded in individual experiences.Methods and analysisThis is a descriptive qualitative study using semistructured interviews, by telephone or video call. People who have been advised to ‘cocoon’/‘shield’ and/or are aged 70 years or over and using at least one long-term medication, or their caregivers, will be eligible for inclusion. We will recruit 100 patient/carer participants: 50 from the UK and 50 from Ireland. Recruitment will be supported by our patient and public involvement (PPI) partners, personal networks and social media. Individual participant consent will be sought, and interviews audio/video recorded and/or detailed notes made. A constructivist interpretivist approach to data analysis will involve use of the constant comparative method to organise the data, along with inductive analysis. From this, we will iteratively develop best practice guidance about household medication safety practices during a pandemic from the patient’s/carer’s perspective.Ethics and disseminationThis study has Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick and University College London ethics approvals. We plan to disseminate our findings via presentations at relevant patient/public, professional, academic and scientific meetings, and for publication in peer-reviewed journals. We will create a list of helpful strategies that participants have reported and share this with participants, PPI partners and on social media.

Connected and concerned: Variation in parents' online safety concerns

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
danah boyd ◽  
Eszter Hargittai
Keyword(s):  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Online Safety

Parental Mediation of Adolescent Technology Use

2018 ◽  
pp. 7097-7105
Author(s):  
J. Mitchell Vaterlaus
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
Interactive Technology ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Parental Concerns ◽  
Adolescent Perceptions

Adolescents are major consumers of interactive technologies (e.g., cell phones, social media). They are motivated to use these technologies to maintain their social relationships in a convenient and private way. The private nature and ease of connectivity afforded by interactive technology has resulted in various parental concerns (e.g., victimization, content) about adolescent technology use. To mitigate these parental concerns, some parents have begun to implement parental mediation strategies. Research has primarily focused on describing the different parental mediation techniques parents implement, parent and adolescent perceptions of parental mediation, and potential barriers to the implementation of parental mediation.

Social Media in Health — What are the Safety Concerns for Health Consumers?

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Y.S. Lau ◽  
Elia Gabarron ◽  
Luis Fernandez-Luque ◽  
Manuel Armayones
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Health Consumers

scholarly journals Exploring the Reasons Behind Parental Refusal of Vaccines

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chephra McKee ◽  
Kristin Bohannon
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Vaccine Preventable Diseases ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Parental Concerns ◽  
Large Subset ◽  
Parental Refusal ◽  
Religious Reasons

Parental refusal of vaccines is a growing a concern for the increased occurrence of vaccine preventable diseases in children. A number of studies have looked into the reasons that parents refuse, delay, or are hesitant to vaccinate their child(ren). These reasons vary widely between parents, but they can be encompassed in 4 overarching categories. The 4 categories are religious reasons, personal beliefs or philosophical reasons, safety concerns, and a desire for more information from healthcare providers. Parental concerns about vaccines in each category lead to a wide spectrum of decisions varying from parents completely refusing all vaccinations to only delaying vaccinations so that they are more spread out. A large subset of parents admits to having concerns and questions about childhood vaccinations. For this reason, it can be helpful for pharmacists and other healthcare providers to understand the cited reasons for hesitancy so they are better prepared to educate their patients' families. Education is a key player in equipping parents with the necessary information so that they can make responsible immunization decisions for their children.

"It's a secret thing": Digital disembedding through online teen drama fandom

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ysabel Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
Secret Identities ◽  
Facebook Pages

Fans of teen drama television series often feel that their pleasures are unworthy, with many going to great lengths to hide their practices from certain people. Social media plays a key role in contemporary fan cultures, and so fans must navigate platforms’ changing and complex norms around their users’ identity in careful and strategic ways. These acts counter recent scholarly claims about the ‘embeddedness’ (or entanglement, enmeshing) of social media’s technologies and norms within our everyday lives. In this paper I explore how fans sometimes disembed, or detach from the logics of certain platforms to facilitate secrecy. My respondents disembed from: (1) some platforms’ normalization of authentic identities, (2) social media’s increasing naturalization of its own embeddedness within everyday life, and (3) platforms’ demands that their users engage in often-risky practices of sharing. I draw on interview and social media observation data to examine how teen drama fandoms’ devalued cultural status motivates my respondents to create secret identities on certain platforms, particularly Facebook Pages.

scholarly journals You're hired: examining acceptance of social media screening of job applicants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Jenna Jacobson ◽  
Elizabeth Dubois
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Prospective Employer ◽  
Types Of Information

The paper examines attitudes towards employers using social media to screen job applicants. In an online survey of 454 participants, we compare the comfort level with this practice in relation to different types of information that can be gathered from publicly accessible social media. The results revealed a nuanced nature of people’s information privacy expectations in the context of hiring practices. People’s perceptions of employers using social media to screen job applicants depends on (1) whether or not they are currently seeking employment (or plan to), (2) the type of information that is being accessed by a prospective employer (if there are on the job market), and (3) their cultural background, but not gender. The findings emphasize the need for employers and recruiters who are relying on social media to screen job applicants to be aware of the types of information that may be perceived to be more sensitive by applicants, such as social network-related information. Keywords : social media, information privacy, job screening, hiring practices

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