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How the Internet Facilitates Adverse Childhood Experiences for Youth Who Self-Identify as in Need of Services
Ozioma C. Oguine, Jinkyung Katie Park, Mamtaj Akter +4
Youth implicated in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, as well as those with an incarcerated parent, are considered the most vulnerable Children in Need of Services (C…
Examining Caregiving Roles to Differentiate the Effects of Using a Mobile App for Community Oversight for Privacy and Security
Mamtaj Akter, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford +1
We conducted a 4-week field study with 101 smartphone users who self-organized into 22 small groups of family, friends, and neighbors to use ``CO-oPS,'' a mobile app for co-managin…
Teen Talk: The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral of Adolescent Social Media Use
Abdulmalik Alluhidan, Mamtaj Akter, Ashwaq Alsoubai +2
The debate on whether social media has a net positive or negative effect on youth is ongoing. Therefore, we conducted a thematic analysis on 2,061 posts made by 1,038 adolescents a…
CO-oPS: A Mobile App for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security
Mamtaj Akter, Leena Alghamdi, Dylan Gillespie +4
Smartphone users install numerous mobile apps that require access to different information from their devices. Much of this information is very sensitive, and users often struggle…
Towards Collaborative Family-Centered Design for Online Safety, Privacy and Security
Mamtaj Akter, Zainab Agha, Ashwaq Alsoubai +2
Traditional online safety technologies often overly restrict teens and invade their privacy, while parents often lack knowledge regarding their digital privacy. As such, prior rese…
Examining the Unique Online Risk Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes of LGBTQ+ versus Heterosexual Youth
Tangila Tanni, Mamtaj Akter, Joshua Anderson +2
We collected and analyzed Instagram direct messages (DMs) from 173 youth aged 13-21 (including 86 LGBTQ+ youth). We examined youth's risk-flagged social media trace data with their…