HCC: Small: Prompting Intentional Social Media Use Among Children and Parents

HCC：小：促使儿童和家长有意识地使用社交媒体

• 批准号: 1318143
• 负责人: Sarita Schoenebeck
• 金额: $ 46.95万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1318143&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Prompting; Intentional; Social

This research will develop new ways to (1) prompt intentional behavior and reflection among children when they become new social media users; (2) support parents in taking a proactive, rather than reactive, role in guiding their children's social media use; and (3) develop theoretical insights about prompting self-awareness among users with and through social systems. Parents are concerned about the content, context, and frequency of their children?s social media use and struggle to cope with these facets. Unfortunately, many parenting approaches to date are reactive and are focused on tracking, logging, or cutting off access to social media. Furthermore, the lack of empirical research in this area has left parents ill-equipped to try alternate strategies. Trying to cut off access to social media could lead to psychological reactance, where children engage in risky behaviors secretly instead of communicating openly with their parents. If we expect parents to raise their children effectively in a complex and rapidly changing digital world, we must develop new tools, approaches, and theories to help them do so. To address this gap, this research casts a new perspective on social media design that focuses on the study and development of social systems that prompt proactive and reflective behavior based on context-dependent cues. The research will use a mixed-methods approach with four phases: (1) conduct parent-child interviews to understand why parents worry about social media and how their worries relate to children?s behaviors; (2) conduct a mobile phone experiment to prompt intentionality and reflection with mobile phone use among children and parents; (3) conduct a web-based experiment to prompt intentionality and reflection with laptop use among children and parents; and (4) synthesize results and develop new theories about ways of prompting reflection and self-awareness in social media systems. Mobile phones and laptops were chosen because they are widely adopted among youth and they are personal and portable, which introduces new parenting challenges. Effectiveness will be evaluated by comparing experimental and control group outcomes using a variety of measures including mobile phone logs, browser logs, self-reports, and validated behavioral scales.Understanding how to prompt regular, real-time reflection with and through social media can guide the design of new kinds of social systems that prompt increased self-awareness and competency. The project will disseminate mobile phone and web-based tools to local parents, schools, and community organizations and will make them publicly available online. It will also disseminate research outcomes for a non-technical audience in the form of presentations, media outputs, and short reports. This research can have a vital and potentially transformative impact on early social media use among children and their parents, addressing a challenge that almost every parent in the U.S. now faces.

这项研究将开发新的方法来（1）当儿童成为新的社交媒体用户时，促进他们的有意行为和反思;（2）支持父母在引导孩子使用社交媒体时发挥积极主动的作用，而不是被动的作用;（3）开发关于通过社交系统促进用户自我意识的理论见解。父母关心孩子的内容、背景和频率？的社会媒体使用和斗争，以科普这些方面。不幸的是，迄今为止，许多育儿方法都是被动的，专注于跟踪，记录或切断对社交媒体的访问。此外，由于缺乏这方面的实证研究，父母没有能力尝试其他策略。试图切断对社交媒体的访问可能会导致心理上的抵触，孩子们会秘密地从事危险行为，而不是公开地与父母沟通。如果我们期望父母在一个复杂而快速变化的数字世界中有效地抚养孩子，我们必须开发新的工具，方法和理论来帮助他们这样做。为了解决这一差距，本研究对社交媒体设计提出了一个新的视角，重点是研究和开发基于上下文相关线索的主动和反思行为的社会系统。研究将采用混合方法，分为四个阶段：（1）进行亲子访谈，了解父母为什么担心社交媒体，以及他们的担忧与孩子有什么关系？的行为;（2）进行一项移动的电话实验，以促进儿童和父母使用移动的电话的意向性和反思;（3）进行一项基于网络的实验，以促进儿童和父母使用笔记本电脑的意向性和反思;（4）综合结果，并发展关于在社交媒体系统中促进反思和自我意识的新理论。之所以选择移动的电话和笔记本电脑，是因为它们在年轻人中被广泛采用，而且它们是个人的和便携的，这带来了新的育儿挑战。通过比较实验组和对照组的结果，包括移动的电话记录，浏览器日志，自我报告和验证的行为量表，评估有效性。了解如何通过社交媒体促进定期，实时的反思，可以指导设计新型的社会系统，促进提高自我意识和能力。该项目将向当地家长、学校和社区组织传播移动的电话和网络工具，并将在网上公开提供。它还将以演讲、媒体产出和简短报告的形式向非技术受众传播研究成果。这项研究可以对儿童及其父母的早期社交媒体使用产生至关重要和潜在的变革性影响，解决几乎每个美国父母现在面临的挑战。