Conducting Risky Research with Teens: Co-designing for the Ethical Treatment and Protection of Adolescents
Conducting Risky Research with Teens: Co-designing for the Ethical Treatment and Protection of Adolescents
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与青少年一起进行危险的研究：共同设计青少年的道德待遇和保护
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10.1145/3432930
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Wisniewski, Pamela
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Badillo-Urquiola, Karla;Shea, Zachary;Agha, Zainab;Lediaeva, Irina;Wisniewski, Pamela
我们研究青少年在线体验的方法应该以证据为基础，并由青少年提供信息。在研究敏感话题时尤其如此，比如未成年人的在线风险行为。我们直接让20名青少年（12-18岁）参与两种不同研究方法（即日记研究和分析社交媒体追踪数据）的共同设计，以进行青少年在线安全研究。我们还采访了13位他们的父母，以了解他们的观点。总的来说，青少年希望分享他们的个人经历，造福社会，而父母则希望研究人员能够解决他们认为青少年普遍存在的问题。然而，他们都对青少年在这些研究中所做的敏感披露的数据隐私表示严重担忧。青少年害怕惹上麻烦。与会者强调了与研究人员建立信任关系以克服这些顾虑的重要性。与会者还看到了利用研究作为风险报告和减轻风险工具的潜力，研究人员可以作为青少年与其他各方（如辅导员、执法部门、父母）之间的联络人，分享相关的风险细节，促进资源，甚至通过向青少年提供减轻研究期间遇到的在线风险的策略，直接帮助他们。我们的研究深入探讨了对青少年进行以风险为中心的研究的重要伦理考虑因素，并揭示了为青少年保护设计基于风险的研究的迫切需要。我们为研究人员提供启发式指导，指导他们对弱势群体（即青少年）进行伦理研究，并在进行研究时保证参与者的安全。
The methods in which we study the online experiences of adolescents should be evidence-based and informed by youth. This is especially true when studying sensitive topics, such as the online risk behaviors of minors. We directly engaged 20 adolescents (ages 12-18) in the co-design of two different research methodologies (i.e., diary studies and analyzing social media trace data) for conducting adolescent online safety research. We also interviewed 13 of their parents to understand their perspectives. Overall, teens wanted to share their personal experiences and benefit society, while parents wanted researchers to tackle a topic that they felt was a prevalent problem for teens. Yet, they both had significant concerns regarding data privacy of the sensitive disclosures made by teens during such studies. Teens' feared getting in trouble. Participants emphasized the importance of developing a trusting relationship with the researcher to overcome these concerns. Participants also saw the potential for using the research study as a tool for risk-reporting and mitigation, where researchers could act as liaisons between the teens and other parties (e.g., counselors, law enforcement, parents) to share pertinent risk details and facilitate resources or even help teens directly by giving them strategies for mitigating online risks they encountered during the study. Our research delves into important ethical considerations for conducting risk-focused research with adolescents and uncovers the critical need for designing risk-based research for youth protection. We provide researchers with heuristic guidelines for conducting ethical research with vulnerable populations (i.e., adolescents) and keeping participants safe while doing so.