‘Just-in-Time’ Parenting: A Two-Month Examination of the Bi-directional Influences Between Parental Mediation and Adolescent Online Risk Exposure

Agha, Zainab; Anaraky, Reza Ghaiumy; Badillo-Urquiola, Karla; McHugh, Bridget Christine; Wiśniewski, Pamela

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77392-2_17

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“…Recent studies on adolescent online safety and parental mediation show that the influence between parents and teens is bi-directional and occurs in a more reactive 'just-in-time' fashion [2]. Thus, technologies that provide real-time monitoring and promote bi-directional communication between parents and teens may be well-suited for supporting this dynamic.…”

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From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight

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Godfrey

Kropczynski

et al. 2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Our research aims to highlight and alleviate the complex tensions around online safety, privacy, and smartphone usage in families so that parents and teens can work together to better manage mobile privacy and security-related risks. We developed a mobile application ("app") for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security ("CO-oPS") and had parents and teens assess whether it would be applicable for use with their families. CO-oPS is an Android app that allows a group of users to co-monitor the apps installed on one another's devices and the privacy permissions granted to those apps. We conducted a study with 19 parent-teen (ages 13-17) pairs to understand how they currently managed mobile safety and app privacy within their family and then had them install, use, and evaluate the CO-oPS app. We found that both parents and teens gave little consideration to online safety and privacy before installing new apps or granting privacy permissions. When using CO-oPS, participants liked how the app increased transparency into one another's devices in a way that facilitated communication, but were less inclined to use features for in-app messaging or to hide apps from one another. Key themes related to power imbalances between parents and teens surfaced that made co-management challenging. Parents were more open to collaborative oversight than teens, who felt that it was not their place to monitor their parents, even though both often believed parents lacked the technological expertise to monitor themselves. Our study sheds light on why collaborative practices for managing online safety and privacy within families may be beneficial but also quite difficult to implement in practice. We provide recommendations for overcoming these challenges based on the insights gained from our study.

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From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight

Akter

Godfrey

Kropczynski

et al. 2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Diary studies are a commonly used method within the HCI and CSCW research communities, as they allow for monitoring of participants' behavior or experiences over an extended period of time, in the moment, rather than relying on recall of events in interview settings. In recent years, diary studies have been used to understand how adolescents (children aged [13][14][15][16][17] and parents manage online harms [1,20,34], how new parents approach baby wearable technology [31], how children with autism spectrum disorder use mobile applications [26] and how social groups approach joint privacy and security use of shared applications and devices [6,32]. Garg and Sengupta [13] used a diary study, capturing information from parents with children aged 4-17, on their smart phone and speaker use.…”

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“…Home IoT devices 1 are often left in communal spaces [6], and, when set up according to the manufacturer's instructions, will collect significant amounts of data about every person that is around them, whether or not those people are aware of it -or consent to it [16]. Having an understanding of the risks that these devices pose should be a fundamental part of the purchase and use process, however it is not commonly the case that individuals understand these risks or take steps to manage them [24], or that devices are necessarily designed to make security easy to manage [5].…”

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confidence: 99%