Dr. Caitlin Elsaesser, Dr. Desmond Upton Patton, Ayesha Clarke,  Allyson Kelley, and Jacqueline Santiago co-authored an article entitled “Avoiding Fights on Social Media: Strategies Youth Leverage to Navigate Conflict in a Digital Era” that was published in the Journal of Community Psychology today.

Abstract

Emerging qualitative work documents that social media conflict sometimes results in violence in impoverished urban neighborhoods. Not all experiences of social media conflict lead to violence, however, and youth ostensibly use a variety of techniques to avoid violent outcomes. Little research has explored the daily violence prevention strategies youth use on social media, an important gap given the omnipresence of social media in youth culture. This paper examines youth strategies and factors that avoid violence resulting from social media conflict.

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