Attitudes Toward School-Based Surveillance of Adolescents' Social Media Activity: Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

US schools increasingly implement commercially available technology for social media monitoring (SMM) of students, purportedly to address youth mental health and school safety. However, little is known about how SMM is perceived by stakeholders, including the students who are the focus of these efforts.

Objective

We aimed to assess attitudes toward SMM in schools among 4 stakeholder groups and examine reasons for holding supportive, neutral, or unsupportive views toward the technology. We also sought to explore whether any differences in attitudes were associated with binary sex, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Methods

In October 2019, we conducted a convergent parallel mixed methods web-based survey of young adults (aged 18-22 y; n

SUBMITTER: Burke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879966 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature