Children and sexting: The case for intergenerational co-learning

Lee, Nick; Hewett, Angela; Jørgensen, Clara Helene Rübner; Turner, Jerome; Wade, Alex; Weckesser, Annalise

doi:10.1177/0907568218777305

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“…Young people could be asked what they think about sexual and bodily expression in a broad sense, and then guided to explore how risk and harm emerge from a cultural context characterised by stereotypes and inequalities. There could be a possibility here for what Lee et al (2018) term "inter-generational co-learning" (p. 1) in which adults are positioned less as impartial experts. Instead, the emphasis is on a collaborative approach between adults and young people, in which they come together to rethink social issues and develop solutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Rights-Based Approach to Youth Sexting: Challenging Risk, Shame, and the Denial of Rights to Bodily and Sexual Expression Within Youth Digital Sexual Culture

Setty

2019

Int Journal of Bullying Prevention

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Educational interventions on youth sexting often focus on individual sexters or would-be sexters, and are driven by the aim of encouraging young people to abstain from producing and sharing personal sexual images. This approach has been criticised for failing to engage with the complex sociocultural context to youth sexting. Drawing upon qualitative group and one-to-one interviews with 41 young people aged 14 to 18 living in a county in southeast England, I explore young people's perceptions and practices surrounding sexting. By taking a grounded theory approach to the research, I reveal how young people's shaming of digitally mediated sexual self-expression shaped and was shaped by a denial of rights to bodily and sexual autonomy and integrity. This denial of rights underpinned harmful sexting practices, including violations of privacy and consent, victim blaming, and bullying. I conclude that responses to youth sexting should attend to this broader youth cultural context, emphasise the roles and responsibilities of bystanders, and encourage a collectivist digital sexual ethics based upon rights to one's body and freedom from harm (Albury,

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Rights-Based Approach to Youth Sexting: Challenging Risk, Shame, and the Denial of Rights to Bodily and Sexual Expression Within Youth Digital Sexual Culture

Setty

2019

Int Journal of Bullying Prevention

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“…Thus, while children are important owners of knowledge and providers of peer support, they are not decision makers. Co-learning (Lee et al, 2018) or co-production of services (Tisdall, 2017) together with children is not something the professionals explicitly reported as an aim, as this would also require them to view children as decision makers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As stated by a few of the professionals in this study, collective user participation is a future challenge and could help professionals tackle ethical challenges such as child anonymity and the long-lasting risks associated with publicity. However, this needs a strong commitment to co-development: collective structures should not be developed for but together with children (Kiili and Larkins, 2018;Lee et al, 2018;Tisdall, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Professionals’ views on children’s service user involvement

Kiili

Itäpuisto

Moilanen

et al. 2021

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Purpose Children are gradually attaining recognition as service users and their involvement in service development has been advanced in recent years. This study draws on empirical research in social and health-care services designed for children and families. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how professionals understand children’s involvement as experts by experience. The focus is on professionals’ views and intergenerational relations. Design/methodology/approach The research data comprise 25 individual and 10 group interviews with managers and professionals working in social and health-care services in one Finnish province. The data were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. Findings The professionals recognised the value of children’s service user involvement. However, they concentrated more on the challenges than the possibilities it presents. Health-care professionals emphasised parental needs and children’s vulnerability. In turn, the professionals from social services and child welfare non-governmental organisations perceived children as partners, although with reservations, as they discussed ethical issues widely and foregrounded the responsibilities of adults in protecting children. In general, the professionals in both domains saw themselves as having ethical responsibility to support children’s service user involvement while at the same time setting limits to it. Originality/value This study confirmed the importance of taking intergenerational relations into account when developing children’s service user involvement. The results indicate that professionals also need to reflect on the ethical challenges with children themselves as, largely owing to the generational position of children as minors, they rarely perceive them as partners in ethical reflection.

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“…Participants preferred parents to approach a teacher who could then help by speaking to the boyfriend and his parents. The importance of having a shared understanding of sexting is discussed by Lee et al (2018) in the context of intergenerational co-learning to provide opportunities for children to articulate and reflect on how they negotiate sexual intimacy and for adults to respond creatively.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Very little is known of the views of young people who have engaged in sexting, and their experiences of involvement with professionals, including law enforcement and child protection agencies (García-Gómez, 2017). Lee et al (2018) have called for creative responses to sexting which draws on adults' and children's understandings and views. Jørgensen, Weckesser, Turner and Wade ( 2019) explored young people's views on sexting education and concluded that we need to give more attention to young people's voices and acknowledge children as experts in their own lives.…”

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confidence: 99%