Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
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Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
Better design is warranted, but it is not enough if the goal is risk reduction. Risk reduction requires socialization, education, and enough agency to build experience. Moreover, if we think that people will still get hurt, we should be creating digital patrols who are there to pick people up when they are hurt.
danah boyd • Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
Instead of asking whether or not a platform optimizes for engagement, it can be more helpful to ask how explicit or implicit these engagement signals are, and provide users with more controls to allow them to tweak their online experience.
Social media was not designed for kids and it’s harming them. Their mental health. Their performance at school.
The way we look at cigarettes we will one day look at social media in its current state. There is measurable harm happening.
But this doesn’t have to be the default. Different... See more
sineadbovellinstagram.comLet me be clear: there is no way to make social media safe for children by just making the content less toxic. It’s the phone-based childhood that is harming them, regardless of what they watch . Kids need to be freed from the grip of smartphones and social media, especially through early puberty. This is why two of the four norms I propose for
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