Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections

Vallejos, Elvira Perez; Pothong, Kruakae; Coleman, Stephen; Koene, Ansgar; Carter, Chris James; Statache, Ramona; Rodden, Tom; McAuley, Derek; Cano, Monica; Adolphs, Svenja; O'Malley, Claire

Abstract

A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety and minimise the new sources of risk associated with accessing the Internet. In this paper we present a new methodological approach to promote digital literacy and positively influence the way in which young people interact with the Internet: iRights Youth Juries. These juries offer a solution for the challenge of how to engage children and young people in activities that, rather than simply promoting Internet safety, aim to provide the knowledge and the confidence required for developing healthy digital citizens. This approach thus begins to move beyond the notion of the Internet as a simple cause of social change, approaching it instead as an opportunity to engage knowledgeably with the digital world and maximise citizenship.

Citation

Vallejos, E. P., Pothong, K., Coleman, S., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., …O'Malley, C. (2015). Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections. Computers and Society, 45(3), 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 9, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Sep 5, 2015
• Publication Date: Sep 5, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 26, 2018
• Journal: ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
• Print ISSN: 0095-2737
• Electronic ISSN: 0095-2737
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 84-90
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252
• Keywords: Digital rights, Internet safety, children and young people,; vignettes, drama, education, engagement
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/762032
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2874239.2874252
• Additional Information: © ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Computers and Society, {v. 45, no. 3, Sept 2015} http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252