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Richer, and Anna M. Adachi-Mejia  \nEducators, parents, practitioners, and mainstream media often raise concerns about the dangers of social media for teenagers. Frequent social media use and exposure to sites that emphasize anonymity may be risky for young adolescents (Charmaraman, Gladstone,& Richer, 2018) . However, with healthy limits, social media can improve social connectivity, enhance a sense of belonging, and provide forums for self-disclosure and identity exploration (James et al., 2017) .  \nEarly adolescents often hear messages like “Don’t spend too much time on your phone!” Yet little is known about how middle school youth regulate their smartphone usage. To help fill that gap, we held a  \nLINDA CHARMARAMAN, PhD, is a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women and director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab. CATHERINE GREVET DELCOURT, PhD, is an assistant professor in computer science at Wellesley College. CYNTHIA SERRANO NAJERA is a senior at Wellesley College majoring in computer science.  \nEMILY VARGAS is a recent graduate of Wellesley College who majored in English literature.  \nALYSSA GRAMAJO is a research associate and project coordinator of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab.  \nAMANDA M. RICHER is assistant methodologist atthe Wellesley Centers for Women.  \nANNA M. ADACHI-MEJIA, PhD, is a photovoice methodology specialist; at the time of this workshop, she was an associate professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.  \nweek-long summer workshop to explore early adolescents’ perspectives on positive and healthy social media usage.  \nWe used a community-based participatory action research model to design our social media curriculum around one specific middle school community, beginning by gathering perspectives from students, parents, and staff. This work shaped our workshop curriculum, which we piloted in summer 2019 with 13 students from this middle school. The workshop activities engaged participants in reflecting on their social media habits, using a method called photovoice to empower participants to share the world through their lenses. In the process, they developed interest in becoming producers as well as critical consumers of social media. Our long-term goal is to incorporate these participants’voices into a user-centered design process to build an app, website, or workshop to support healthy social media use. Our photovoice project provides an example of how to engage in a research-community collaboration to learn which social media and well-being issues are most salient in a school community. It is also a model to show afterschool or summer program providers how to conduct their own photovoice workshop.  \nYouth and Social Media  \nPrevious studies of social media interventions to promote health in adolescents have found some success in engaging youth in the process of creating content, including videos (Barrett et al. , 2017) . Researchers have also documented limitations in the ability of these interventions to maintain participant engagement; some young people were not interested in the specific social media platform used or in posting on social media generally, did not have easy access to a mobile device, or were too busy (Yi-Frazier et al. , 2015) .  \nIn 2018, more than 10 million youth were involved in afterschool programs (Moss, 2018) and 90 percent of teens used social media (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018), yet we found limited research on afterschool programs that engage young people in learning healthy uses of social media. Our search found only seven articles (Afterschool Alliance & MetLife Foundation, 2013; Barnett et al. , 2014; Davis et al. , 2017; Felt et al. , 2012; James, 2013; Millset al., 2018; Vickery, 2014) that studied h","cbCaiiZdyRRcclHo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiZdyRRcclHo","pdf",967792,"English","# Disconnecting and Reconnecting\n## Youth and Social Media\n## Workshop Structure and Research Approach\n## Identity Construction Programs\n## Safe Social Media Use Training\n## Integrating Science and Social Media","[{\"question\":\"What concern motivates the workshop about healthy social media use?\",\"answer\":\"Frequent social media use and exposure to anonymity-emphasizing sites are often viewed as risky for young adolescents, prompting calls for safer, healthier limits.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the workshop curriculum designed?\",\"answer\":\"It used a community-based participatory action research model, gathering perspectives from students, parents, and staff to shape the social media curriculum for the middle school community.\"},{\"question\":\"What method did participants use to share their perspectives?\",\"answer\":\"The workshop used photovoice, empowering participants to share the world through their lenses while reflecting on their social media habits.\"}]","Disconnecting and Reconnecting - A Photovoice Workshop on Healthy Social Media Use | PDF",1792070990,25]