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Alliance members and associate members, their sector/organisation type, and geographical scope (European Commission, 2019)
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Many ethical questions have been raised regarding the use of social media and the internet, mainly related to the protection of young people in the digital environment. In order to critically address the research question "who is responsible for ethically protecting minors in the digital environment?", this paper will review the main literature ava...
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... operations are developed in several EU Member States and other countries, demonstrating the initiative's global operations and scope. Table 5 summarises the Alliance's members and associate members according to their sectors, geographical scope, and organisation type. . An Ethical Discussion About the Responsibility for Protection of Minors in the Digital Environment: A State-of-the-art review. ...Similar publications
The study examined how parents, schools, and social media use influenced civic engagements of school adolescents. It also assessed the mediation role of sense of community and perceived civic competence. Participants were 960 school adolescents (mean age = 17.7, range: 15-19 years; 53.5% females) who were selected using multistage sampling techniqu...
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... A study highlighted the role of internet service providers in ensuring digital safety through protective mechanisms and corporate social responsibility initiatives [43]. 4. Initiate countries to implement stringent legal framework is crucial for restricting access to online sites for adolescents [44]. Measures such as the Juvenile Protection Act, Internet Safety Zones, and the Real-Name System can effectively limit exposure to harmful online content and promote safer internet use among these age groups. ...
... Today, citizens can use the Internet to collect all kinds of information. With its help, users can be tracked in real time anywhere and anytime, making children's rights more vulnerable to infringement (Alves de Castro et al., 2022;Huang, 2021). Childhood is a crucial stage for everyone, and as a special group, children require the care and protection of the state, society, and family. ...
In the contemporary era of the internet, safeguarding children's rights emerges as a critical concern necessitating immediate attention. Given children's heightened vulnerability within society, the legal framework must prioritize their protection, reinforcing their agency and safeguarding their rights through legislative measures. This study proposes an innovative differential clustering algorithm specifically designed to uphold children's rights. Through rigorous experimentation, the algorithm achieves an Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) approaching 2, showcasing its effectiveness in offering targeted differential protection for children's rights while maintaining high clustering precision. The paper emphasizes the importance of noise reduction through iterative central point optimization to stabilize cluster configurations, with the fusion of multiple clusters serving to mitigate noise impacts on data points and yield robust clustering outcomes. Consequently, this research delivers reliable clustering results while preserving the confidentiality of children's rights information.
... Finally, even less research has focused on revealing the negative influences of SMIs on young people (Alves de Castro et al., 2022). As such, the main objective of the present study is to present and analyse a new instrument able to assess the susceptibility of young people to be influenced by social media influencers. ...
... Social Perception is composed of three elements: Perception Towards Influencers, Parasocial Relationships and Consumer Trust. In turn, Perception Towards Harmful Content is composed of 28 types of harmful content posted online which were categorised in a previous critical review analysis (Alves de Castro et al., 2022). ...
Social media influencers (SMIs) represent a phenomenon that has increased drastically in previous years, reaching a peak since the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of previous research done involving parasocial relationship theory and consumer trust theory has been done regarding celebrities, leaving a gap in understanding influence and one's susceptibility to influence in an SMI context. Here, a series of closed-ended questions was applied to a young student cohort (N=91), and its power was evaluated using structural equation modelling, which indicated that a series of 25 questions holds the ability to measure susceptibility to SMI influence. These questions form the SUSIS Questionnaire, thereby representing a confirmed tool to measure susceptibility to SMI influence. These findings respond to a gap in marketing literature involving SMIs, showing the potential power and usefulness they hold in marketing strategies, but also serve as an alert that SMIs influence youth, presumedly both positively and negatively.
