The Internet has, for varied reasons, emerged as a critical mediating tool in the everyday experience for many young people. Opportunities for access and participation are vast and well-documented. There are, however, risks, or more accurately ‘problematic situations’, associated with these online experiences. From a digital youth’s perspective, real and perceived threats, primarily related to content, contact and conduct, all play to policy agendas, and adult fears of how best to protect youth within virtual space where the boundaries of private and public are easily blurred and compromised. Drawing upon a purposive sample of four high schools, in greater Melbourne, Australia, frequency analysis is performed on questionnaire data from 770 students aged 12–18. Adapting the research taxonomy from the EU Kids Online (2014, EU Kids Online: findings, methods, recommendations (deliverable D1.6)) project, this paper extends that work by developing a more comprehensive coding structure to reflect the complex attitudes high school students of this study exhibit with their online practice. In doing so, this research, via a more nuanced classification, supports the ongoing validity of previous research that points to navigation of the Internet as a continuing contestation between balancing opportunity and risk.

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澳大利亚高中生和他们的互联网使用：对机会的看法与“有问题的情况”

由于各种原因，互联网已成为许多年轻人日常体验中的重要调解工具。访问和参与的机会是巨大的并且有据可查。然而，这些在线体验存在风险，或者更准确地说是“有问题的情况”。从数字青年的角度来看，主要与内容、联系和行为有关的真实和感知威胁都与政策议程有关，成人担心如何在私人和公共界限很容易模糊和妥协的虚拟空间中最好地保护青年. 利用澳大利亚大墨尔本地区四所高中的有目的样本，对来自 770 名 12-18 岁学生的问卷数据进行频率分析。改编来自欧盟儿童在线的研究分类法（2014 年，欧盟儿童在线：调查结果，方法，建议（可交付成果 D1.6））项目，本文通过开发更全面的编码结构来扩展这项工作，以反映本研究的高中生在在线实践中表现出的复杂态度。在这样做的过程中，这项研究通过更细微的分类支持了先前研究的持续有效性，该研究指出互联网导航是平衡机会和风险之间的持续争论。