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<div class="PlainText">This is an announcement of Kelly Barbara Wagman's MS Presentation<br>
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Candidate: Kelly Barbara Wagman<br>
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Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023<br>
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Time: 1 pm CST<br>
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Location: JCL 298<br>
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M.S. Paper Title: "We picked community over privacy": Privacy and Security Concerns Emerging from Remote Learning Sociotechnical Infrastructure
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Abstract: With the rapid shift to remote learning in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents, teachers, and students had to quickly adapt to what scholars have called "emergency remote learning" (ERL). This transition required increased reliance on
digital tools, exacerbating privacy and security threats associated with expanded data collection and new vulnerabilities. In this study, we adopt a sociotechnical and infrastructural perspective to understand how these threats emerged through breakdowns and
tensions in elementary school ERL. Through interviews with 29 US-based teachers and parents of elementary school students (grades PreK-6), we identify two core findings related to privacy and security. First, we detail three breakdowns in the ERL sociotechnical
infrastructure: (1) reduced attention to privacy and security issues as parents and teachers cobbled together a patchwork of tools needed to make ERL work; (2) privacy and security risks that emerged from ambiguous and shifting school policies; and (3) the
failure to adapt standard authentication mechanisms (e.g., passwords) to be usable by young children. Second, we identify tensions between parents' and teachers' desire to help children advance in their education and their desire for children's privacy and
security in ERL, as well as tensions resulting from the collapse of home and school contexts. These findings collectively suggest that ERL exacerbated existing--and created new--privacy and security challenges for young students, and we argue these challenges
will carry beyond the pandemic due to the increasing use of technology to supplement traditional education. In light of these findings, we recommend researchers and educators use a framework of care to develop social and technical approaches to improving remote
learning in order to protect children's privacy and security.<br>
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Advisors: Marshini Chetty<br>
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Committee Members: Marshini Chetty, Pedro Lopes, and Sarah Sebo<br>
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