Children’s experiences of social media: Developing Better Digital Literacy

Together We Create Series 2: What UCL's social scientists gain from collaborative partnerships

Children’s experiences of social media and unsolicited sexual images: Developing Better Digital Literacy In this episode, UCL’s Professor Jessica Ringrose shares her research on unsolicited sexual images on Snapchat, a social media platform which plays a central role in the lives of many teens. We discuss how this work uncovered high rates of non-consensual image sharing and led to the establishment of cyber flashing as a new criminal offence in the UK’s 2023 Online Safety Bill. We also explore how collaborating with young people, crime scientists, sex education charities, and policy makers, and the use of participatory arts-based methods, were key to uncovering children’s experiences of social media and achieving more equity and social justice in their lives. Jessica Ringrose is Professor of the Sociology of Gender and Education at UCL’s Institute of Education. She is a co-director of the UCL Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity and runs the Feminist Educational Engagement Lab with her doctoral students. She also co-runs the ‘Post-digital Intimacies’ research network, which looks at experiences in social media.

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Date of episode recording: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:23:31
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Lili Golmohammadi
Guests: Jessica Ringrose
Producer: Matt Aucott;Cerys Bradley