ProTechThem: Building Awareness for Safer and Technology-Savvy Sharenting

ProTechThem：建立更安全和技术精湛的共享意识

• 批准号: ES/V011278/1
• 负责人: Anita Lavorgna
• 金额: $ 98.23万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011278%2F1
• 关键词: ProTechThem; Building; Awareness; Safer; Technology

Especially over the past 15 years, the creation of new "online identities" (the social identity that we acquire in cyberspace) and the expansion of the usability of our "digital identity" (the digital storage of our attributed, biographical or even biological identities) have entailed, alongside many advantages, also new and emerging risks and crime vulnerabilities, as identity information can be misused in many ways and create severe harms. Existing research in this context has so far focused on the illegal access to personal information (e.g. through hacking or social engineering techniques) but has overlooked the risky behaviours of individuals willingly sharing identifying (and potentially sensitive) information online. In this context, an area of particular interest that has been particularly overlooked is the one connected to the sharing of identifying and sensitive information of minors, who are often overexposed online in good-faith by parents and guardians in so called "sharenting" practices. Beyond risks due to negative psychological repercussions in ignoring children's desire to having (or not) an online identity, there are concerns regarding the potential for grooming and child abuse, and the potential for identity crimes (such as identity fraud and identity theft), especially keeping in mind that today's children, in a few years, will be those employing digital identities in many aspects of their lives, and will need a clean and curated digital identity to be fully part of many aspects of our society.The proposed project combines traditional and innovative cross-disciplinary approaches to further this emerging line of inquiry. The project does so by offering a better understanding of sharenting practices, their motivations, and the risks associated with them. It provides a better understanding of the existing technical and regulatory loopholes and gaps enabling potentially harmful sharenting practices. It also develops a better understanding of the perception of the problem by parents and guardians (our "target population"). The project can therefore enable better targeted awareness-raising activities; an improvement of the tools we currently have to study, prevent and mitigate the negative impacts of sharenting practices.The result of this research will be of significant importance for social media users (and specifically for those in our target population) by raising awareness and promoting sustained behavioural change to minimise cyber risks. The results will also be of relevance for the work of law enforcement in better addressing crimes potentially facilitated by certain sharenting practices such as grooming and identity crimes.More in general, the proposed approach will improve our understanding of criminogenic opportunities available in social media, supporting new avenues of investigation. By integrating insights and expertise from criminology and computer sciences, the proposed project also has important implications for demonstrating interdisciplinary methodological developments and promoting best practice for ethical online research. The research project is structured around seven cumulative work-packages to allow the research team to build a solid body of original data (currently not available to researchers) but also to promote engagement and effective communication with a non-academic audience (primarily, law enforcement, and parents and guardians). Throughout the project, we will be supported by our Project Partners (UK Safer Internet Centre; Kidscape; Arma dei Carabinieri); together with Dame Prof. Wendy Hall and other stakeholders, the Project Partners will be also part of our Advisory Board.

特别是在过去的15年里，新的“网络身份”（我们在网络空间中获得的社会身份）的创造和我们“数字身份”（我们的属性、传记甚至生物身份的数字存储）的可用性的扩大，在带来许多优势的同时，也带来了新的和正在出现的风险和犯罪漏洞，因为身份信息可能以多种方式被滥用并造成严重危害。到目前为止，这方面的现有研究主要集中在非法获取个人信息（例如，通过黑客攻击或社会工程技术），但忽视了个人自愿在网上分享身份（和潜在敏感）信息的风险行为。在这种情况下，一个特别令人感兴趣的领域被特别忽视，那就是与分享未成年人的身份和敏感信息有关的领域，父母和监护人经常在所谓的“分享”做法中善意地在网上过度曝光未成年人。除了忽视儿童拥有（或不拥有）网络身份的愿望所带来的负面心理影响所带来的风险之外，人们还担心潜在的诱骗和虐待儿童，以及潜在的身份犯罪（如身份欺诈和身份盗窃），特别是要记住，今天的孩子，在几年后，将在他们生活的许多方面使用数字身份。我们需要一个干净、精心策划的数字身份，才能完全融入我们社会的方方面面。拟议的项目结合了传统和创新的跨学科方法来进一步研究这一新兴领域。该项目通过提供对分享实践、其动机以及与之相关的风险的更好理解来做到这一点。它提供了一个更好的了解现有的技术和监管漏洞和可能有害的分享做法的差距。它还能让家长和监护人（我们的“目标人群”）更好地理解对这个问题的看法。因此，该项目能够开展更有针对性的提高认识活动；改进我们目前拥有的工具，用于研究、预防和减轻分享实践的负面影响。这项研究的结果将对社交媒体用户（特别是我们的目标人群）具有重要意义，通过提高意识和促进持续的行为改变来最大限度地降低网络风险。研究结果还将有助于执法部门更好地解决某些“教唆”行为可能助长的犯罪行为，如打扮和身份犯罪。更一般地说，拟议的方法将提高我们对社交媒体中可用的犯罪机会的理解，支持新的调查途径。通过整合犯罪学和计算机科学的见解和专业知识，拟议的项目也对展示跨学科方法发展和促进道德在线研究的最佳实践具有重要意义。该研究项目围绕七个累积工作包构建，使研究团队能够建立一个坚实的原始数据体（目前研究人员无法获得），同时也促进了与非学术受众（主要是执法部门、家长和监护人）的参与和有效沟通。在整个项目中，我们将得到我们的项目合作伙伴的支持（英国更安全的互联网中心，Kidscape, Arma dei Carabinieri）；与温迪·霍尔教授和其他利益相关者一起，项目合作伙伴也将成为我们咨询委员会的一部分。

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