Young Canadians in a Wireless Planet (YCWW) is Canada’s longest-running and most in depth analysis research on young people’s attitudes, behaviours, and thoughts regarding the world wide web, know-how, and electronic media. MediaSmarts has surveyed more than 20,000 dad and mom, teachers, and learners via this study since 1999.  

The results from YCWW are applied to established benchmarks for investigation on children’s use of the net, technologies, and digital media and have knowledgeable policy on the digital economic climate, privateness, on-line security, on line harms and digital perfectly-getting, digital citizenship, and electronic media literacy, among the other subjects. This study is also utilized to inform other jobs at MediaSmarts and at other corporations, together with academic establishments, within our large and developing community of research partners.  

The research is at this time in its fourth stage. In 2019, MediaSmarts’ investigation team carried out emphasis groups to get a kid’s-eye-look at of what is working for younger people on line and what wants to be improved or improved so that they get the most out of their online experiences. Concentration groups with dad and mom assisted to round out discussions about what is necessary to foster collective on the internet resiliency. This qualitative perform assisted us prepare for a quantitative survey that started in 2021.  

We built two surveys to investigate the attitudes, things to do, added benefits, and troubles youthful folks keep and practical experience when they are online and using digital gadgets – one particular for learners in grades 4 to 6 and one for grades 7 to 11. We administered these surveys to 1,058 youth from throughout Canada concerning September and December of 2021. For much more detailed data about our study techniques, make sure you read this report.

This fifth report – Interactions and know-how: Sexting – is the second of two reviews focusing on relationships and technologies. We share results similar to sending, obtaining, and forwarding sexts and spotlight what the YCWW Section IV study details tells us about youthful Canadians’ motivations and attitudes for partaking in sexting. We also converse to the part of have confidence in and guidance in sexting behaviours amid youth, focusing specifically on the effect of adult involvement and supervision and the drive for even further educational aid on this matter. Lastly, we share assets that are currently offered on the MediaSmarts site about sexting and emphasize present-day exploration in the area that expands on what we supply in this report.  

Inside the Period IV YCWW study, thoughts linked to sexting have been only readily available to individuals in grades 7 to 11 (n=659). Over-all, the sample dimension for youth who indicated they engaged in sexting was very modest in most scenarios, n=110 or less.

The infographic beneath summarizes the vital results from the YCWW Period IV Interactions and technological know-how: Sexting report.