NIH R01 · 2024
Stakeholder Perspectives on Social Media Surveillance in Schools
PROJECT ABSTRACT At a time when youth suicide and school shooting incidents are increasing, a growing number of U.S. schools are implementing commercially available social media surveillance (SMS) technology that can allegedly identify mental health and safety threats by monitoring students' social media posts. Although SMS technology is increasingly being purchased and used by schools, such use is often not disclosed to students or parents. There is also a lack of transparency regarding the methods used by companies to collect information about students, and there are no guidelines to inform how schools use and respond to the information they receive. Moreover, there is typically no…
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