"Bli inte bortrövad" : En intervjustudie om vårdnadshavares syn på risker i barns användning av digitala plattformar och datainsamling

Sammanfattning: We live in a digitalized world and almost every child in Sweden between the ages of ten to sixteen has access to or owns a mobile phone. As children spend more time online, research shows that parents are getting more worried about their children's digital lives. The parents worry about many different aspects, like that their children are being bullied online or getting contacted by adults with ill intent. Algorithms and data collection has not been perceived as a risk in children's usage of digital platforms. The public debate regarding data collection has been more focused on the issues and downsides of data collection such as how it can be used to influence politics. The purpose of this thesis is to research what kind of risk parents experience in their children’s use of digital platforms and to what extent data collection can be understood as one of them. The method used for the thesis is semi-structured interviews and six interviews were conductedwith parents who have children within the age span 9-17 years old. The theoretical framework is primarily based on Helen Nissenbaum’s theory regarding contextual integrity. The research examines the dichotomy between people's intention to share information and their actual behaviour also known as the privacy paradox. Christian Fuchs and Shoshana Zubhoffs theories are used to define and examine data collection as unpaid work and its place in the era of surveillance capitalism. The result shows that most of the parents have limited knowledge about data collection, which may lead to the result that they tend to worry about other risks in their children's use in digital platforms rather than the data being collected. Our conclusion is that a discussion regarding the knowledge on how data is collected and used is much needed both for parents and children going forward.