Teenagers' Reaction on the Long-Lasting Separation from Smartphones, Anxiety and Fear of Missing Out

Adelhardt, Zinaida; Markus, Stefan; Eberle, Thomas S.

doi:10.1145/3217804.3217914

Cited by 17 publications

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“…From the most critical perspective, the platform is accused of interrupting, distracting from tasks and breaking students' concentration (Aharony & Zion, 2013;Karapanos et al, 2016;Yeboah & Ewur, 2014), as well as generating anxiety and stress related to the urgency of receiving a response to the messages sent (Adelhardt et al, 2018;Fondevila Gascón et al, 2014). Recent research highlights that people with low self-esteem and social skills, but eager to obtain the approval of others and a sense of belonging, are more inclined to develop an addiction to this type of app (Chen, 2020).…”

Section: Use Of Whatsapp Messenger By Spanish Teenagersmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain

Sánchez

Guerrero-Pico²

2020

Social Media + Society

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Smartphones and WhatsApp are, respectively, the medium and application that Spanish teenagers most want. However, research into the use of WhatsApp is still quantitatively and qualitatively limited. In addition, little research has been carried out regarding its impact on the development of transmedia skills and informal learning strategies outside the classroom. This article aims to expand the knowledge on teenagers’ motivations and their development of transmedia skills and informal learning strategies in relation to their use of WhatsApp. Specifically, a qualitative analysis of data gathered from workshops, interviews, and media diaries is applied as part of a case study methodology involving teenagers from 10 schools located in five different Spanish regions. The results reveal the new WhatsApp uses teenagers are applying in their daily lives as well as the skills and strategies they are developing through said uses in the context of interpersonal and group (WhatsApp groups) interactions: on one hand, production, social, content, and individual management skills, and on the other hand, learning by doing, teaching, and evaluating strategies.

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Section: Use Of Whatsapp Messenger By Spanish Teenagersmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain

Sánchez

Guerrero-Pico²

2020

Social Media + Society

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“…scavenger hunts [36]). Our results might not entirely generalize for age groups below 18 years given their specific smartphone usage patterns [2], despite the fact that teenagers show poor performance in detecting phishing [54]. Similar limitation holds for users' country of residence as phishing susceptibility differs from country to country [34].…”

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Gone Quishing: A Field Study of Phishing with Malicious QR Codes

Sharevski¹,

Devine²,

Pieroni³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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The COVID-19 pandemic enabled quishing, or phishing with malicious QR codes, as they became a convenient go-between for sharing URLs, including malicious ones. To explore the quishing phenomenon, we conducted a 173-participant study where we used a COVID-19 digital passport sign-up trial with a malicious QR code as a pretext. We found that 67 % of the participants were happy to sign-up with their Google or Facebook credentials, 18.5% to create a new account, and only 14.5% to skip on the sign-up. Convenience was the single most cited factor for the willingness to yield participants' credentials. Reluctance of linking personal accounts with new services was the reason for creating a new account or skipping the registration. We also developed a Quishing Awareness Scale (QAS) and found a significant relationship between participants' QR code behavior and their sign-up choices: the ones choosing to sign-up with Facebook scored the lowest while the one choosing to skip the highest on average. We used our results to propose quishing awareness training guidelines and develop and test usable security indicators for warning users about the threat of quishing. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy; Usability in security and privacy.

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“…Some of the potential harms of SM exposure include its impact on self-esteem, eating attitudes, or depressive disorders. Moreover, some studies have connected its prolonged use to addictive behaviors and anxiety [6]. In response to that, different actions have taken place to reduce the impact of SM exposure.…”

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Narrative Scripts Embedded in Social Media Towards Empowering Digital and Self-protection Skills

Hernández‐Leo

Theophilou

Lobo

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Social media has become an important part of adolescents' lives, with an increasing number of teenagers spending a great part of their time creating, sharing, and socializing with online content. Although the popularity of social media keeps growing, different studies identified threats and dangers that exist in such networks. From harmful content to negative behaviors, users can fall victim to negative social media phenomena that can affect their mental health and wellbeing. Several media literacy initiatives have been designed to promote social media awareness amongst the youth using traditional approaches to teaching about social media risks and threats. However, these approaches are limited in enabling deep reflection about the dangers behind their social media interactions and empowering their empathy, perspective-taking, critical thinking, digital and self-protection skills. This demo paper introduces a perspective in this context proposing the integration of educational opportunities within social media. The proposed approach is designed as a social media simulated learning platform where embedded learning activities follow a novel "narrative scripting" approach, in which Computer Supported Collaborative Learning script mechanisms are combined with counter-narratives strategies.

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Teenagers' Reaction on the Long-Lasting Separation from Smartphones, Anxiety and Fear of Missing Out

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain

What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain

Gone Quishing: A Field Study of Phishing with Malicious QR Codes

Narrative Scripts Embedded in Social Media Towards Empowering Digital and Self-protection Skills

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