Overview
- Considers issues of online resilience and safety drawing extensively upon the youth voice
- Argues that we should refocus upon harm reduction and risk mitigation
- Shows that professionals often bring their own digital value biases into safeguarding decisions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology (PASCY)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores online resilience and safety from a new perspective, by drawing extensively upon the youth voice. While “online safety” as a concept has now existed for well over ten years, the majority of policy and narrative is driven by preventative and adultist views of ensuring safety from harm. Underpinned by extensive empirical work, this book argues that safety, or freedom from harm, is not an achievable goal and we should refocus upon harm reduction and risk mitigation. Fundamental to this argument is that the youth voice clearly states that they will not disclose, or ask adults for support, because they do not believe they will get help or worse, will be punished as a result of disclosure. The research shows that professionals often bring their own digital value biases into safeguarding decisions, and feel that they should be white knights to young people, rather than listening to them and supporting them in a non-judgemental way. The book will be of great value to researchers and students as well as practitioners, teachers and parents interested in digital resilience and safeguarding, internet security and youth online behaviour and wellbeing.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Andy Phippen is Professor of Digital Rights at Bournemouth University, UK with 20 years’ experience researching issues in the online safeguarding area.
Louisa Street is a youth worker with over 10 years’ experience working on a range of issues with young people including online safety and drugs and alcohol awareness.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Online Resilience and Wellbeing in Young People
Book Subtitle: Representing the Youth Voice
Authors: Andy Phippen, Louisa Street
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88634-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88633-2Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88634-9Published: 23 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2754
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2762
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 125
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychology, general, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Education, general, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development