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Examining Parents' Technical Mediation of Teens' Mobile Devices

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Arup Kumar Ghosh,

Karla A. Badillo-Urquiola,

Heng Xu,

Mary Beth Rosson,

John M. Carroll,

Pamela WisniewskiAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 179 - 182

https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026306

Published: 25 February 2017 Publication History

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Abstract

Parental control software has been one approach for promoting adolescent online safety, but there is still some ambiguity in the adoption patterns and perceptions of technical mediation for teens' mobile devices. We have collected empirical data from a paired sample of 215 parents and teens. We found that overall usage of technical mediation for mobile devices is low and that parents' and teens' perceptions about the frequency of use are not significantly different. We discuss the implications of our findings and opportunities of future research.

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CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

February 2017

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ISBN:9781450346887

DOI:10.1145/3022198

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