Navigating privacy tensions when responding to online aggression at postsecondary institutions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21297534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia L Byrne (0000-0003-2080-6522, Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy, School of Education and Urban Studies Morgan State University Baltimore Maryland USA, corresponding author), Juana Hollingsworth (0000-0003-3586-0871, Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy, School of Education and Urban Studies Morgan State University Baltimore Maryland USA), Priya C Kumar (0000-0001-9244-7915, College of Information Sciences and Technology Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1636-1652 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1013 • E-ISSN: 1467-8535 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bjet.13377 |
| OpenAlex | W4386252292 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Postsecondary institutions have a legal responsibility to ensure that students have access to a safe learning environment. While institutions adopt policies and hire administrators to protect students from harm, many are underprepared to support students when these harmful incidents happen online. This is of increased concern now that online aggression is pervasive across universities worldwide. While faculty, administrators and students agree that online aggression is a significant issue and that institutions ought to provide prevention and response services, there is concern that these efforts might violate privacy norms. We used the theory of privacy as contextual integrity (CI) to explore the tensions that postsecondary students and staff perceive regarding student privacy when responding to incidents of online aggression. To do so, we conducted focus groups with undergraduate students and student affairs administrators from a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the Mid‐Atlantic USA. Our analysis surfaced three considerations that inform students' and staff's decision to report an incident of online aggression: their closeness to the person making the post, their perception of the online post content as a real threat and their knowledge of an authority figure who could help resolve the situation. We used CI theory to explain how these considerations can inform institutional policy, practice and future research. Practitioner notes
Aggression · Closeness · Harm · Higher education · Internet privacy · Political science · Public relations · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |