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This Digital Life: A Neighborhood-Based Study Of Adolescents' Lives Online, Jessica Pater Phd, Andrew D. Miller, Elizabeth Mynatt
This Digital Life: A Neighborhood-Based Study Of Adolescents' Lives Online, Jessica Pater Phd, Andrew D. Miller, Elizabeth Mynatt
Health Services and Informatics Research
In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
In this paper, we present the results of a multi-year study of the social computing practices of 179 adolescents (Mage=12.4 years, SD=1.3; range: 10-14) living in a majority-minority lower-income urban neighborhood in the Southeast U.S. We investigate shifting social media practices using annual surveys and focus groups. We describe participants’ social media use and motivations and show how that use has shifted over time. We show how participants identify social pressures and influences as well as specific behaviors including computer-mediated risky behaviors and self-harm. We discuss …