Miss LIZ DOWTHWAITE LIZ.DOWTHWAITE@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Miss LIZ DOWTHWAITE LIZ.DOWTHWAITE@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Helen Creswick
Dr VIRGINIA PORTILLO VIRGINIA.PORTILLO@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
RESEARCH FELLOW
Jun Zhao
Menisha Patel
Professor ELVIRA PEREZ VALLEJOS elvira.perez@nottingham.ac.uk
PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Ansgar Koene
Marina Jirotka
Children and young people make extensive and varied use of digital and online technologies, yet issues about how their personal data may be collected and used by online platforms are rarely discussed. Additionally, despite calls to increase awareness, schools often do not cover these topics, instead focusing on online safety issues, such as being approached by strangers, cyberbullying or access to inappropriate content. This paper presents the results of one of the activities run as part of eleven workshops with 13-18 year olds, using co-designed activities to encourage critical thinking. Sets of 'data cards' were used to stimulate discussion about sharing and selling of personal data by online technology companies. Results highlight the desire and need for increased awareness about the potential uses of personal data amongst this age group, and the paper makes recommendations for embedding this into school curriculums as well as incorporating it into interaction design, to allow young people to make informed decisions about their online lives.
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Zhao, J., Patel, M., Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., & Jirotka, M. (2020, June). "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies. Presented at IDC '20: Interaction Design and Children, London, UK
Presentation Conference Type | Edited Proceedings |
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Conference Name | IDC '20: Interaction Design and Children |
Start Date | Jun 17, 2020 |
End Date | Jun 24, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | Mar 23, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 21, 2020 |
Publication Date | Jun 21, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Apr 29, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 21, 2020 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 121-134 |
Book Title | IDC '20: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference |
ISBN | 9781450379816 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394410 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4360284 |
Publisher URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392063.3394410 |
"It's your private information. It's your life." Young people's views of personal data use by online technologies
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