Growing public concern about student safety and well-being has led schools and school districts to contract private companies to implement new technologies that target and surveil students’ activity on social media websites. Although innovative solutions for addressing student safety and health are needed, it is unclear whether the implementation of social media surveillance in schools is an effective strategy. Currently, there is no evidence to support the claims made by social media surveillance companies, as well as the schools that hire them, that these technologies can address the myriad of public health issues facing today’s students. Instead, these digital surveillance systems may only serve to exacerbate the problems that youth—especially those from historically marginalized groups—already face.

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中文翻译：

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学校社交媒体监控：重新思考数字时代的公共卫生干预措施


公众对学生安全和福祉的日益关注导致学校和学区与私营公司签约，以实施针对和监视学生在社交媒体网站上的活动的新技术。尽管需要创新的解决方案来解决学生的安全和健康问题，但目前尚不清楚在学校实施社交媒体监控是否是一种有效的策略。目前，没有证据支持社交媒体监控公司以及雇用它们的学校的说法，即这些技术可以解决当今学生面临的无数公共卫生问题。相反，这些数字监控系统可能只会加剧年轻人（尤其是来自历史上边缘群体的年轻人）已经面临的问题。


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