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Social Media Use and Autism – Teens and Adults

Free certificates of participation are available upon successful completion of a brief knowledge quiz at https://autism.org/social-media-use-a... Handouts are online at: https://autism.org/social-media-use-a... We often equate keeping teens safe online to shielding them from experiencing online risks – such as information breaches, cyberbullying, sexual solicitations, and exposure to explicit content. However, this abstinence-only approach tends to be very parent-centric and does not take into account the developmental needs and teen-centric experiences of our youth, including those who are on the Autism Spectrum. Instead, Dr. Wisniewski’s research emphasizes teaching teens how to appropriately leverage technology to their advantage, stay safe while doing so, and learn how to cope with online risks when they encounter them. As adults, we often assume teens have no personal agency when it comes to their own online safety, and that they cannot effectively manage online risks by themselves. Yet, as parents and educators, it is our job to teach Autistic teens these skills, so that they can become well-formed and independent adults. Autistic teens can disproportionately benefit and be harmed online; therefore, it is important to take evidence-based precautions that protect them from harm without limiting their opportunities to connect with others and benefit from what the internet has to offer. Note: Just like everyone else, Autistic teens all have different strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the perspectives shared during this talk may not be generalizable to all Autistic teens, particularly those who require more significant (i.e., Level 3) support in their daily lives. Pamela Wisniewski, PhD, is an endowed, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. She is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholar whose research lies at the intersection of Social Computing and Privacy. Dr. Wisniewski is an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents. She was one of the first researchers to recognize the need for a resilience-based approach, rather than an abstinence-based approaches to adolescent online safety, and to back this stance up with empirical data. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has won multiple best papers (top 1%) and best paper honorable mentions (top 5%) at top conferences in HCI. She has been awarded over $4.72 million in external grant funding, including two prestigious career awards. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award for her innovative, teen-centric approach to adolescent online safety, “Safety by Design: Protecting Adolescents from Online Risks,” and was the first computer scientist to ever be selected as a William T. Grant Scholar. Her research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including ABC News, NPR, Psychology Today, and U.S. News and World Report. In addition to her scholarly research with teens, Dr. Wisniewski is the wife of an AuDHD man and mother to an AuDHD daughter. In this webinar: 0:35 – Fear-based narratives and online safety 3:55 – Finding the middle ground 5:05 – Study 1: Online exposure diary study 7:20 – Quotes from teens 11:00 – Parents’ knowledge 13:49 – Why teens don’t tell 15:25 – End of study findings 16:35 – Study 2: Ethnographic study on risks and benefits of social media use 18:20 – Benefits of social media use for autistic youth 21:30 – How young autistic adults perceive digital affordances 24:40 – Quotes and examples from the study 28:50 – Effects of mediating social media use 32:30 – What can we do? 36:55 – Online safety as a developmental process 38:40 – Guidelines for parental control software/applications 40:35 – Study 3: Parental control application reviews from teens 41:50 – Resist fear-based narratives 42:45 – Acknowledgements and thanks 43:25 – Q & A