Stakeholder Perspectives on Social Media Surveillance in Schools

利益相关者对学校社交媒体监控的看法

• 批准号: 10668652
• 负责人: Cinnamon S Bloss
• 金额: $ 57.84万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10668652
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PROJECT ABSTRACT At a time when youth suicide and school shooting incidents are increasing, a growing number of U.S. schools are implementing commercially available social media surveillance (SMS) technology that can allegedly identify mental health and safety threats by monitoring students' social media posts. Although SMS technology is increasingly being purchased and used by schools, such use is often not disclosed to students or parents. There is also a lack of transparency regarding the methods used by companies to collect information about students, and there are no guidelines to inform how schools use and respond to the information they receive. Moreover, there is typically no evaluation of practice by schools, and there has been no systematic assessment of the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI), including how it affects the students whom it purportedly aims to help. We recently conducted a brief survey of 529 students, parents, teachers, and school administrators on perceptions of SMS. Compared to administrators, students were less supportive of using SMS, more skeptical of whether it could address violence, bullying, and mental health issues, and parents felt it could lead to data misuse and discrimination. These preliminary data point to differing perspectives among stakeholder groups and suggest more work is needed to assess the ways in which SMS is currently implemented and the range and complexity of possible effects on students. The long-term goal of this research is to promote the health, safety, and privacy interests of students and the institutional obligations and interests of schools by identifying and mitigating harms from school-based SMS. The overall objective of this application is to document the ways in which SMS is currently being used by school administrators, assess the perspectives of students and parents, and analyze the ELSI issues. Our hypothesis, based on our preliminary work, is that administrators engage in a wide range of implementation practices and that some youth are vulnerable to adverse effects of school-based SMS. The work proposed in this application is needed to inform student-centered policy recommendations in this area where little transparency and regulation currently exist. We propose the following specific aims: 1) Document school administrators' reasons for using SMS and current implementation practices; 2) Assess the perceived effects of school-based SMS on students and identify student characteristics associated with vulnerability to adverse effects; and 3) Conduct a detailed analysis of the ELSI issues with school-based SMS and develop policy recommendations. This project will generate new insights about perceptions and practices related to SMS in schools. Results could also inform a research agenda in this area, including whether systematic intervention studies of some school-based SMS systems are warranted, and if so, offer study design considerations that center the mental health needs of students and youth. More generally, this work will inform current and future practices and policies related to the use of SMS and other forms of digital surveillance in broader areas of public health.

项目摘要 在青少年自杀和校园枪击事件不断增加之际，越来越多的美国学校正在实施商用社交媒体监控（SMS）技术，据称该技术可以通过监控学生的社交媒体帖子来识别心理健康和安全威胁。尽管学校越来越多地购买和使用短信技术，但这种使用通常不会向学生或家长透露。公司收集学生信息的方法也缺乏透明度，也没有指导方针来告知学校如何使用和回应他们收到的信息。此外，学校通常没有对实践进行评估，也没有对道德、法律和社会影响（ELSI）进行系统评估，包括它如何影响其据称旨在帮助的学生。我们最近对 529 名学生、家长、教师和学校管理人员进行了一项关于短信看法的简短调查。与管理人员相比，学生不太支持使用短信，更怀疑它是否可以解决暴力、欺凌和心理健康问题，家长认为这可能导致数据滥用和歧视。这些初步数据表明了利益相关者群体之间的不同观点，并表明需要开展更多工作来评估 SMS 目前的实施方式以及对学生可能产生的影响的范围和复杂性。这项研究的长期目标是通过识别和减轻校内短信的危害来促进学生的健康、安全和隐私利益以及学校的机构义务和利益。该应用程序的总体目标是记录学校管理人员目前使用 SMS 的方式，评估学生和家长的观点，并分析 ELSI 问题。基于我们的初步工作，我们的假设是，管理人员参与了广泛的实施实践，而一些青少年很容易受到学校短信的不利影响。本申请中提出的工作需要为该领域目前缺乏透明度和监管的以学生为中心的政策建议提供信息。我们提出以下具体目标： 1) 记录学校管理人员使用 SMS 的原因以及当前的实施实践； 2) 评估校本短信对学生的感知影响，并确定与易受不利影响相关的学生特征； 3) 对校本 SMS 的 ELSI 问题进行详细分析并制定政策建议。该项目将产生关于学校短信相关认知和实践的新见解。结果还可以为该领域的研究议程提供信息，包括是否有必要对某些学校短信系统进行系统干预研究，如果有必要，则提供以学生和青少年心理健康需求为中心的研究设计考虑因素。更广泛地说，这项工作将为当前和未来在更广泛的公共卫生领域使用短信和其他形式的数字监控相关的实践和政策提供信息。