Leveraging Youths’ Digital Literacies: The E-Responder Social Media Violence Interruption Model and Pilot Evaluation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
youth, social media, violence, intervention, prevention
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2019.1582145
Abstract
Increasingly, altercations and arrests have been traced to youths’ actions on social media. The present paper describes E-Responder, an intervention developed through a university-community partnership to address three key goals for youth at risk of legal system involvement and firearms-related violence: (1) preventing the escalation of online provocation to in-person violence; (2) supporting youth in enhancing social media self-efficacy; and (3) supporting Violence Prevention Professionals (VPPs), already working with youth, in using social media as a tool to interrupt potential violence and leverage youth’s digital citizenship. This paper describes the E-Responder mixed-methods pilot; findings suggest that E-Responder sites identified over 100 instances of risky online behavior (22% high risk) and effectively addressed 97% of these instances. Youth participants reported significantly greater social media self-efficacy over time and compared to matched-comparison youth. Focus group (n = 12) results corroborate these patterns. Implications for future intervention, research, and policy are discussed.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
No
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, v. 47, no. 2, p. 76-89
Scholar Commons Citation
Sichel, Corianna E.; Javdani, Shabnam; Ueberall, Stephanie; and Liggett O'Malley, Roberta, "Leveraging Youths’ Digital Literacies: The E-Responder Social Media Violence Interruption Model and Pilot Evaluation" (2019). Criminology Faculty Publications. 68.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cjp_facpub/68
