This is your brain on DOPA: THE DATA

Ybarra, Michele (2008, June).  This is your brain on DOPA: THE DATA. Presented at the American Library Association, Anaheim, CA.

Summary:

This presentations analyzes findings from the Growing up with Media Study and the Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS and YISS2) to discuss:

1. Experiences:

     – Internet harassment and bullying

     – Unwanted sexual solicitation

2. Exposures:

     – Unintentional and intentional access to pornography

     – Access of other violent web site content

Findings include:

- About one in three youth targeted by Internet harassment report feeling very/extremely upset (or afraid) because of the incident. Similar rates were found for unwanted sexual solicitation.

- The majority of youth who use the Internet have positive experiences and report that none of these types of exposures occur.

- The data do not support the assertion that youth are more likely to have negative experiences (i.e., sexually solicited, harassed) or exposures (i.e., access x-rated material) online than offline.

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