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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Rethinking responses
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
“…online opportunities and risks go hand in hand: the more children and young people experience the one, the more they also experience the other, and vice-versa.”
Livingstone & Bober, UK Children Go Online, 2005
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
“…online opportunities and risks go hand in hand: the more children and young people experience the one, the more they also experience the other, and vice-versa.”
Livingstone & Bober, UK Children Go Online, 2005
Much research looking at young
people and the Internet draws on the
‘Opportunity-Risk’ framing.
Whilst this was a good starting point
for research, it offers a very limited
framework to accommodate
research findings, and narrows down
the range of possible policy
responses.
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
The terms we use to frame our
research have a big impact on what
we do. And the policy responses that we can identify. In 2008 we sought to build on an
‘opportunity’ and ‘risk’ frame, but to
focus on practice by asking about
ways young people could navigate risk, and take up opportunity.
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Risk Opportunity
What are we researching?
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- Risk and opportunity on the Internet?
Risk Opportunity
What are we researching?
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- Risk and opportunity on the Internet?
- Risk and opportunity experienced by young people?
Risk Opportunity
What are we researching?
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
- Risk and opportunity on the Internet?
- Risk and opportunity experienced by young people?
- The harm or benefits that result?
Risk Opportunity
What are we researching?
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- Risk and opportunity on the Internet?
- Risk and opportunity experienced by young people?
- The harm or benefits that result?
Risk Opportunity
What are we researching?
On it’s own terminology of
opportunity and risk is very
unspecific - and can lead to confusion
as to what is being discussed.
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- Risk and opportunity on the Internet?
- Risk and opportunity experienced by young people?
- The harm or benefits that result?
Risk Opportunity
What are we researching?
Myth #9: Teaching digital skills will reduce online risks
For example: what does this myth really mean? How many different ways could it be
interpreted?
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Risk Opportunity
What are we doing?Policy and practice responses
Even though EU Kids Online has repeatedly stated risk and
opportunity ‘go hand in hand’ - research and policy is frequently
framed around ‘balancing opportunity and risk’.
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
RiskOpportunity
What are we doing?Policy and practice responses
Even though EU Kids Online has repeatedly stated risk and
opportunity ‘go hand in hand’ - research and policy is frequently
framed around ‘balancing opportunity and risk’.
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
RiskOpportunity
What are we doing?Policy and practice responses
Even though EU Kids Online has repeatedly stated risk and
opportunity ‘go hand in hand’ - research and policy is frequently
framed around ‘balancing opportunity and risk’.
And risk is a ‘heavier’ concept. Risks might lead to specifiable harms that we can all agree are bad. Opportunity frequently leads to an opening up of diverse benefits - which different actors will place different value on.
In risk-averse organisations, within protection oriented child and youth policies - simplistic approaches to ‘risk’ will always unbalance our responses.
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Working with practitioners, I’ve consistently found the ‘remove risk first’ approach leads to ineffective digital engagement and ineffective
strategies to properly address potential harms to young people, and
young peoples’s digital literacies. The www.youthworkonline.org.uk network brings together 100s of practitioners to discuss working with young people in a digital world.
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“Safe and effective”
We’ve experimented with a language
of “Safe and Effective” to capture the
need to build on safe-and-sound
foundations, but to work through
active engagement with the digital
world.
But this is also a limited framing:
begging the question of what we
mean by safe? And what effective
online engagement is?
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Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
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Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Blocking & restriction-focussed responses are frequently counter-productive
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Blocking & restriction-focussed responses are frequently counter-productiveAllowing adults to ignore responsibilities; denying participation of young people in online spaces; circumvention increases risk.
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Blocking & restriction-focussed responses are frequently counter-productiveAllowing adults to ignore responsibilities; denying participation of young people in online spaces; circumvention increases risk.
Ineffective safety messages
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Blocking & restriction-focussed responses are frequently counter-productiveAllowing adults to ignore responsibilities; denying participation of young people in online spaces; circumvention increases risk.
Ineffective safety messages
Restriction-focused responses undermine other rights
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Blocking & restriction-focussed responses are frequently counter-productiveAllowing adults to ignore responsibilities; denying participation of young people in online spaces; circumvention increases risk.
Ineffective safety messages
Restriction-focused responses undermine other rightsRights to participation, provision, privacy and other protections.
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
EU Kids Online II Conference - September 23rd 2011Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
Blocking & restriction-focussed responses are frequently counter-productiveAllowing adults to ignore responsibilities; denying participation of young people in online spaces; circumvention increases risk.
Ineffective safety messages
Restriction-focused responses undermine other rightsRights to participation, provision, privacy and other protections.
Confusing risk to organisations and risk to young people
Without an alternative framework,
risk distorts policy and practice
responses, leading to:
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Services neglecting digital dimensions of young people’s lives
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Services neglecting digital dimensions of young people’s livesMissing support needs; and opportunities to develop opportunities.
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Services neglecting digital dimensions of young people’s livesMissing support needs; and opportunities to develop opportunities.
Missed opportunities to build digital literacy for future workforce and for our communities
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Services neglecting digital dimensions of young people’s livesMissing support needs; and opportunities to develop opportunities.
Missed opportunities to build digital literacy for future workforce and for our communities
Young people excluded from the debate or contributions ignored
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
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Rethinking responses to young peopleʼs online livesParticipation, protection, provision
Services neglecting digital dimensions of young people’s livesMissing support needs; and opportunities to develop opportunities.
Missed opportunities to build digital literacy for future workforce and for our communities
Young people excluded from the debate or contributions ignoredNarrow youth fora pre-empt conclusions.
Risk and opportunity based policy & practice
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An alternative frame...
So where can we find an alternative framework?
Over the course of the last year we’ve been exploring possible
conceptual frames to guide our own research, policy and practice
responses to young people’s online lives.
Starting at the Internet Governance Forum in 2010, and continuing
through the Youth Work Online Month of action, we’ve been looking at
how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child can be used to
develop a richer container for research results, and more
comprehensive guide for action.
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Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The convention rights are often divided into three categories:
Protection, Provision and Participation
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Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
These are not rights in conflict to be ‘balanced’, but are mutually re-enforcing. Look at the triangle: if you remove any side, it will collapse.
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Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the ChildMany research, policy and practice
agendas start from one side of the
triangle: for example, focussed on online
child protection.
This frame suggests they must also look
at provision online, and young people’s
participation in decisions about the
digital world to have a full understanding
of what to explore and how to respond
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Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Similarly - a provider of online services cannot focus only on provision: but also needs to look at having good protection and participation foundations in place.
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Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
But if we are to fully understand the mutually re-enforcing nature of these aspects of young people’s online lives, we need to add a little more detail.
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Support digital citizenship
Empower young people
Respond to risks
Promote resiliency
Provide positive spaces
Youth shaped services
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Support digital citizenship
Empower young people
Respond to risks
Promote resiliency
Provide positive spaces
Youth shaped services
So we add a circle: six principles: one principle to
express what responses look like on each side of
the triangle (responses focussed on a particular
set of rights), and one principle at each
intersection - showing how these mutually re-
enforcing areas of rights relate.
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Support digital citizenship
Empower young people
Respond to risks
Promote resiliency
Provide positive spaces
Youth shaped services
So if we’re researching e-participation, we should ask how it empowers young people with skills to manage their safety online, and how young people are shaping the provision of participative spaces.
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Support digital citizenship
Empower young people
Respond to risks
Promote resiliency
Provide positive spaces
Youth shaped servicesIf we’re planning a protection policy, we
need to look at how it builds on young
people as empowered participants in
their own protection, and how we
promote resiliency.
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Support digital citizenship
Empower young people
Respond to risks
Promote resiliency
Provide positive spaces
Youth shaped services
Etc...
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This is just a draft model: a sketch of how
we can find alternative frames for thinking
about young people’s lives
Refining a model that can capture the depth of insights into young people and technology that research, and young
people’s own voices offer us; the strong foundations of the UNCRC; and a need for
simplicity; will take more work.
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Where next?
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Where next?
Your views on this model, and how we
escape the limitations of an opportunity-
risk dichotomy would be very welcome.
(Web space for discussion coming soon -
for now get in touch by e-mail, or leave a
comment alongside these slides)
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