Vulnerability profiles created with the help of an online child protection diagnostic tool and the possible personalized intervention solutions
The webinar will be about a tool that identifies individual online vulnerability and risk exposure of a child or a group of children. Based on a questionnaire that examines personality, digital well-being, media use habits, and digital parenting background beyond online risks, 20 vulnerability profiles were created. The tool will offer a set of recommendations based on the profiles, including individual and community-specific awareness-raising solutions for the children themselves, educators and parents. Learn more.
DATE: Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
TIME: 12PM EST / 6PM CET / 9:30PM IST
Scientific research into how children use online platforms and social media, what risks they are
exposed to, and how they are exposed, is essential to promote the online protection of children.
However, these general data are insufficient to identify the individual risk exposures and online
vulnerability of children, and to help them use these platforms in a balanced way.
The main aim of developing the digital child protection diagnostic tool was to identify the likely
causes of mobile/online risk exposures with the confidence needed to propose interventions based
on the characteristics of the individuals involved in the diagnosis. The diagnostic tool can be used to
break down individuals or groups (e.g. classes) into characteristic groups ('profiles') according to
complex arrangements and patterns of risk exposures and personality traits. The significance of this,
as opposed to grouping by risk exposures alone, is that the analysis of diagnostic results also
considers the personality-related causes of problematic internet - and mobile use when constructing
each group, and the choice of child-centred safeguarding, educational or even therapeutic
interventions required depends to a large extent on the personality of the individuals diagnosed.
Speakers
Borbála Timár is a media literacy educator, digital child protection expert working for governmental and nonprofit organizations in Hungary. She is a PhD Candidate at MOME Budapest. Her research topic is the connections between digital wellbeing, emotions and media literacy through user’s and platform’s lenses.
Silvia Németh is the managing director and a researcher of T-Tudok Centre for Knowledge
Management and Educational Research Inc. She has been working as an education specialist and researcher in the field of equity and access to quality education since 2003. Besides taking part in various international research projects, she has also been working as a program developer in Creative Partnerships Hungary programme since 2014.