Trends and Recommendations MediaSmarts © 2023 29 ● Continue to communicate and mobilize recommendations from MediaSmarts’ qualitative research on privacy and consent, specifically those that call on online platforms and policymakers to consider the unique needs of young people in developing meaningful online consent policies and practices. [...] These findings highlight the need to complicate our understanding of online meanness and cruelty to avoid oversimplifying the dynamics of ‘victims’ and ‘perpetrators.’ Recommendations ● Support ongoing development and delivery of resources for youth, parents, guardians, caregivers, and educators that help young Canadians navigate experiences of online meanness and cruelty. [...] ● Support development and promotion of resources for youth, parents, guardians, caregivers, and educators that address the primary online contexts in which youth experience online meanness and cruelty: online gaming, texts and private messages, and social media posts and comment threads. [...] ● Support development and promotion of resources for youth, parents, guardians, caregivers, and educators that address the primary motivations for engaging in online meanness and cruelty: name-calling, as a joke, and in retaliation to their own experience of online meanness. [...] These resources should embrace the interpersonal or relational approaches preferred by youth and encourage youth (especially LGBTQ+, trans and gender-diverse youth, racialized youth, and youth with disabilities) to safely advocate for themselves and their sense of safety and well-being in online communities.
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