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

这项研究将开发新的方法来(1)在儿童成为新的社交媒体用户时促使他们进行有意的行为和反思；(2)支持父母在引导他们的孩子使用社交媒体方面发挥积极的、而不是被动的作用；以及(3)发展关于通过和通过社会系统在用户中促进自我意识的理论见解。父母关心孩子的内容、背景和频率吗？S使用社交媒体，并努力应对这些方面。不幸的是，到目前为止，许多育儿方法都是被动的，专注于跟踪、登录或切断对社交媒体的访问。此外，在这一领域缺乏实证研究，使得父母没有准备好尝试替代策略。试图切断对社交媒体的访问可能会导致心理反应，孩子们会秘密地从事危险的行为，而不是公开与父母沟通。如果我们希望父母在复杂和快速变化的数字世界中有效地抚养他们的孩子，我们必须开发新的工具、方法和理论来帮助他们做到这一点。为了解决这一差距，这项研究为社交媒体设计提供了一个新的视角，专注于研究和开发基于上下文相关线索促使主动和反思行为的社会系统。这项研究将采用混合方法，分四个阶段进行：(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的关系？S的行为；(2)进行手机实验，促使儿童和家长对手机的使用进行意向和反思；(3)进行基于网络的实验，促使儿童和家长对笔记本电脑的使用进行意向和反思；(4)综合结果，开发关于在社交媒体系统中促使反思和自我意识的方法的新理论。之所以选择手机和笔记本电脑，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。有效性将通过使用包括手机日志、浏览器日志、自我报告和有效行为量表在内的各种衡量标准来比较试验组和控制组的结果来进行评估。了解如何通过社交媒体定期、实时地反思可以指导新型社会制度的设计，这些制度有助于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手机和基于网络的工具，并在网上公开提供这些工具。它还将以陈述、媒体输出和简短报告的形式向非技术受众传播研究成果。这项研究可能会对儿童及其父母的早期社交媒体使用产生重要的、潜在的变革性影响，解决几乎每一位美国父母现在都面临的挑战。

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.