S’appuyant sur les découvertes de HabiloMédias sur les jeunes et la vie privée tirées de notre recherche Jeunes Canadiens dans un monde branché, notre nouvelle étude qualitative, Partager ou ne pas partager : comment les adolescents gèrent-ils leur vie privée en lien avec le partage de photos sur les médias sociaux, a pour objectif d’examiner le raisonnement privilégié par les adolescents lorsqu’ils partagent des photos en ligne.

Building on MediaSmarts’ findings on youth and privacy from our Young Canadians in a Wired World research, our new qualitative study, To Share or Not to Share: How Teens Make Privacy Decisions about Photos on Social Media examines the reasoning that teens apply when sharing photos online.

Despite their enthusiastic participation in social media, it’s a mistake to think that young people don’t care about privacy. MediaSmarts’ 2014 study Young Canadians in a Wired World, which surveyed over 5,000 students across Canada on their experiences with and attitudes towards digital media, found that they do have very strong feelings about their privacy, and take significant steps to control it.

La télévision, la musique et les films font partie intégrante de la vie des jeunes depuis des générations, et Internet n’a fait qu’intensifier la situation en nous les offrant directement dans nos foyers, légalement et illégalement.

TV, music and movies have been a central part of young people’s lives for generations, and the Internet has only intensified that by delivering all of those directly to our homes – legally and illegally.

In my previous post I briefly mentioned the issue of passwords. The topic of passwords may not be as top-of-mind as sexting or bullying, but it’s important, and it definitely deserves some attention at home. Consider this the next topic for your dinnertime conversation.