Teens, Social Media, and Image Based Abuse

Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, London, UK, where she co-directs the UCL Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity. She is an internationally recognized and widely cited expert on gender and sexual equity in education and youth digital sexual cultures. She has collaborated and published on these topics with colleagues in in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Wales and Ireland.Kaitlyn Regehr is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Digital Humanities at University College London. Her work has informed legislation on children’s safety online including the Online Safety Act. Dr Regehr is committed to building data empowered societies and making academic ideas accessible through broadcasting and interactive new technology and has produced and served as a topic specialist on documentaries for BBC News, BBC Women’s Hour, Channel 4 and the Economist.

• 1. An introduction to social media apps, platform economies, consent, images, and abuse.- 2. South East Community College: Youth social media ‘produsers’ and the apps opening the floodgates to non-consensual sexual images.- 3. Lion’s Co-Educational Independent Boarding School: How highly selective school status shapes digital sexual cultures and identities.- 4. Outer North Academy: Tech facilitated violence, racism and peer produced porn - the entanglement of mobile digital networks and physical school and neighborhood based abuse.- 5. Central Comprehensive: Religion, digital sexual double standards, shaming and victim blaming.- 6. Stags School for Boys: Elite Masculinities, nudes as homosocial currency and mastering your digital footprint.- 7. North West Secondary: Self commodification, porn push, and platform, peer group and school based barriers to reporting image based abuse.- 8. Swans School for Girls: Performing high achieving femininities, sexy selfies and digital dating dynamics in an all-girls school.- 9. Conclusion: Image based sexual harassment and abuse affects everyone so how can we support young people better?.