Fostering Social Media Literacy through a Participatory Mixed-Methods Approach: Discussion of Workshop Findings

Author(s)

Barbara Göbl, Dayana Hristova, Suzana Jovicic, Marie-France Chevron, Thomas Slunecko, Helmut Hlavacs

Abstract

Social media is a permanent companion of today's adolescents. Its various positive and negative effects on well-being have been broadly discussed. We argue that transparency and knowledge about underlying principles of social media are crucial steps towards empowering its adolescent users. Therefore, we aim to design a serious game addressing these concerns. This paper describes a participatory approach to game design and presents results from 15 workshop sessions including qualitative data from various workshop activities and 19 prototypes designed by adolescents. We present both a qualitative and quantitative analysis of these low-fidelity prototypes as well as the content discussed within these workshops, thereby, laying out adolescents' views on relevant topics, contents and respective design for a serious game.

Organisation(s)

Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, Research Platform Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Department for Teacher Education

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2019.8882464

Publication date

2019

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

102015 Information systems

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science), Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science Applications, Media Technology

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ad94b779-7c30-4666-ab3a-243632b8ddfb