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The debate on whether social media has a net positive or negative effect on youth is ongoing. Therefore, we conducted a thematic analysis on 2,061 posts made by 1,038 adolescents aged 15-17 on an online peer-support platform to investigate the ways in ...

We discuss the paradigm shift from restrictive approaches toward resilience-based solutions to promote adolescents’ online safety and well-being. We describe how restrictive strategies induce a tradeoff between teens’ privacy and online safety and present ...

While risk is highly subjective, especially when it comes to the private online interactions of youth, third-party annotations are often performed to identify risky content. Therefore, we conducted a mixed-methods study to examine if, how, and why risk ...

We solicited feedback from seven teens (aged 15-17) after they served for approximately two years on a Youth Advisory Board (YAB) for online safety. During this program, we engaged with them in various activities, including reviewing our lab’s research ...

We worked with seven teens (aged 15-17) in a Youth Advisory Board program (YAB) for over a year to involve them in online safety research from reviewing online safety research protocols to co-designing online safety interventions that cater to their ...

Accurate real-time risk identification is vital to protecting social media users from online harm, which has driven research towards advancements in machine learning (ML). While strides have been made regarding the computational facets of algorithms for “...

HCI research has been at the forefront of designing interventions for protecting teens online; yet, how can we test and evaluate these solutions without endangering the youth we aim to protect? Towards this goal, we conducted focus groups with 20 teens ...

In this study, we synthesize insights from secondary stakeholders (i.e., IT professionals, teachers, and entrepreneurs) in youth online safety regarding the use of online community platforms to raise awareness, and their effectiveness in sponsoring ...

As part of a Youth Advisory Board of teens (YAB), a longitudinal and interactive program to engage with teens for adolescent online safety research, we used an Asynchronous Remote Community (ARC) method with seven teens to explore their social media ...

Adolescent online safety research has largely focused on designing interventions for teens, with few evaluations that provide effective online safety solutions. It is challenging to evaluate such solutions without simulating an environment that mimics ...

Multiple recent efforts have used large-scale data and computational models to automatically detect misinformation in online news articles. Given the potential impact of misinformation on democracy, many of these efforts have also used the political ...

With the growing ubiquity of the Internet and access to media-based social media platforms, the risks associated with media content sharing on social media and the need for safety measures against such risks have grown paramount. At the same time, risk ...