Do No Harm Lest Others Do Harm to You: Self-Protection and Risk Management by Generation Y on Social Media

Abstract

This research makes explicit the harm mitigation and conflict avoidance strategies underpinning the use of social and digital media as it has been deployed and shaped by Irish millennials and discusses the consequences of their reluctance to engage in the public realm of the internet.

Citation

Wodniak, K. and Holohan, A. (2019), "Do No Harm Lest Others Do Harm to You: Self-Protection and Risk Management by Generation Y on Social Media", Schulz, J., Robinson, L., Khilnani, A., Baldwin, J., Pait, H., Williams, A.A., Davis, J. and Ignatow, G. (Ed.) Mediated Millennials (Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 19), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020190000019005

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