Thesis: How do young people interpret and construct risk in an online context?
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Date doctorate awarded: 3rd December 2018.
Result: Passed without corrections.
Institution: City, University of London (Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism)
Supervisors: Prof. Chris Greer & Dr. Carrie Myers
Awards: CLJJ fully funded three-year scholarship.
Overview: The research focuses on young people aged 11-18 years old, and their perceptions of the misuse of social media. Specifically, where they think the boundaries lie between criminal, illegal, moral and social transgressions in an online or digital context, and what factors influence these perceptions.
The research is based on participant observation of a series of interactive, focus group workshop sessions in two large secondary schools. 189 pupils discussed 12 stimuli example posts in groups, with verbatim hand-written quotations noted by the researcher. These responses were analysed and written up as findings.
Publications
'Bullying and Social Media' (2017) School bullying and mental health: Risks, Intervention and Prevention. Routledge, 2018.
‘Online abuse: teenagers might not report it because they often don’t see it as a problem’ The Conversation.com May 7, 2019 9.40am BST
