Social Media as a Catalyst and Trigger for Youth Violence Report – Catch 22 and University College Birmingham (January 2017)

Summary:

Access to the social media as a catalyst and trigger for youth violence report produced by Catch 22 and the University College Birmingham.

Description:

Catch22 Dawes Unit and University College Birmingham published social media as a catalyst and trigger for youth violence report, also available is their executive summary (2017).  The report focuses on the challenging link between children- use of social media and youth violence.

The report intends to do the following;  

• Give a practical overview of how children use social media platforms today;
• Examines how social media acts as a catalyst for serious incidents of violence between children in real life;
• Identifies additional safeguarding challenges raised by social media, including glamorisation of violence, negative perceptions of authority and instances of sexual assault;
• Identifies a number of recommendations to prevent children from harming, and being harmed by, other children as a result of social media activity.