Youthful Canadians in a Wireless Environment (YCWW) is Canada’s longest-operating and most extensive research analyze on young people’s attitudes, behaviours, and thoughts pertaining to the world wide web, technological innovation, and electronic media. MediaSmarts has surveyed above 20,000 moms and dads, academics, and pupils through this analyze since 1999.  

The results from YCWW are utilized to set benchmarks for investigate on children’s use of the online, know-how, and electronic media and have informed plan on the electronic economy, privateness, on-line security, online harms and digital very well-becoming, digital citizenship, and digital media literacy, amid other matters. This study is also made use of to inform other jobs at MediaSmarts and at other corporations, which includes tutorial establishments, inside our huge and escalating community of research partners.  

The examine is at present in its fourth stage. In 2019, MediaSmarts’ research team executed emphasis groups to get a kid’s-eye-see of what is doing the job for young people today on the net and what wants to be transformed or enhanced so that they get the most out of their on line experiences. Emphasis teams with mom and dad helped to round out discussions about what is needed to foster collective on the net resiliency. This qualitative operate assisted us put together for a quantitative survey that started in 2021.  

We developed two surveys to take a look at the attitudes, functions, advantages, and difficulties youthful men and women keep and expertise when they are on line and employing digital devices – one for college students in grades 4 to 6 and one for grades 7 to 11. We administered these surveys to 1,058 youth from throughout Canada amongst September and December of 2021. For far more in-depth details about our analysis methods, please browse this report.

This fourth report – On-line Meanness and Cruelty – is the to start with of two reports focusing on associations and technological know-how. This report highlights how usually and where youth knowledge, witness, and have interaction in on-line cruelty as well as the reasons or motivations for their engagement. In the report, we also summarize findings similar to how younger individuals react to on the net meanness and cruelty and from whom they request aid in navigating these harmful experiences.

The infographic underneath summarizes the essential results from the YCWW Section IV Online Meanness and Cruelty report.