Doom-monitoring Students’ Online Interactions and Content Creation in Schools

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23251
In this Papers Podcast, Professor Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies at the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and Kristjan Kikerpill, lecturer in Information Law and Digital Sociology of the same institution, discuss their co-authored Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal Special Issue paper, ‘Schools engaged in doom-monitoring students’ online interactions and content creation: an analysis of dominant media discourses’ (doi.org/10.1111/camh.12621). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include;

• The types of activities that are monitored by schools using student activity monitoring software.
• The global nature of online monitoring of students’ online interactions and content creation in schools.
• What does the phrase ‘doom-monitoring’ mean and how it came about.
• The implications of the inaccuracy of the technology on students being monitored.
• The impact of this kind of monitoring on marginalised children
• The difference in opinions of teachers and parents and students regarding the use of online monitoring.
• How might this type of technology be improved to better support young people.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.