Insights into Adolescent Online Conflict through Qualitative Analysis of Online Messages
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2020-01-07
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Given adolescents’ widespread use of online messaging and social media, as well as the prevalence of cyberbullying, analyzing adolescents’ online message-based communication topics and patterns is relevant to public health. To better describe conflict in adolescent online communication, this paper analyzes patterns of conflict in a dataset of adolescent online messages. We describe a qualitative methodology for analyzing these complex data, to expand understanding of adolescents’ online conversations, and to identify how best to categorize conflict within online media datasets. In this study, 14,239 messages from 20 adolescents in the Northeast United States (of which 1,911 were coded) were analyzed using thematic analysis. Several distinct kinds of conflict and responses were identified. Conflict was either direct or indirect, serious or non-serious; it most often was indirect and serious, referenced either insults or romantic contacts, and was frequently related to in-person fights. Coding relied on understanding both textual contexts and referents.
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Social Media and Healthcare Technology, adolescent, conflict, cybervictimization, mental health, social media
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9 pages
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Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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