Help the Youth and Media Team learn more about how youth use social networking platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr) and other online tools (such as Google, YouTube, Snapchat, email, and online games)!
If you’re a student, you can help us by participating in focus group interviews. If you’re a teacher, you can help us by recruiting students. If you want to help spread the word, you can hang up our poster at your local school/library. If you want get involved, you can learn more about the privacy research we do.
Students
Are you between the ages of 12-18? Do you like using Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or other social networking platforms? Do you live in Boston, Chicago, Denver, or Los Angeles? Do you want your voice heard about what youth really do online?
If so, we’d love for you to participate in one of our upcoming focus group interviews! We’ll need just 90 minutes of your time to discuss what you think about privacy settings online, what you typically do online, how you control the information you post, and what you think about parents/teachers/adults being on the same social networking platforms you’re on. You’ll receive $25 for telling us your thoughts and we’ll get an even better perspective of youth behavior online–it’s a win-win! We’ll keep all of your information confidential and anything you share with us will be reported completely anonymously.
Interested? Email: youthandmedia at cyber.law.harvard.edu or text: 442-222-1170.
Educators
Are you an educator in a secondary school in the Boston, Chicago, Denver, or Los Angeles areas? Do you know students who might be interested in sharing their ideas about online privacy settings, what they do online, or how they feel about adults on social networking platforms? You could help the Youth and Media Team recruit students to participate!
- The focus group interview will last approximately 90 minutes.
- Students can come to us (23 Everett Street in Cambridge) or we can come to them at your school or a nearby public library.
- Each participant will receive $25 for their participation.
- Participants’ names will be kept confidential and any information provided will be reported completely anonymously.
Learn More
To see some of the results of our latest focus group findings, please see our latest publication, “Parents, Teens, & Online Privacy” that we co-released with researchers at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, or watch the video made by our summer interns based on focus group findings.
Interested? Email: youthandmedia at cyber.law.harvard.edu or text: 442-222-1170.
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