A comparison of presentation methods for conducting youth juries

PLoS One. 2019 Jun 26;14(6):e0218770. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218770. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

The 5Rights Youth Juries are an educational intervention to promote digital literacy by engaging participants (i.e. jurors) in a deliberative discussion around their digital rights. The main objective of these jury-styled focus groups is to encourage children and young people to identify online concerns and solutions with a view to developing recommendations for government policy-makers and industry chiefs. The methodology included a series of dramatized scenarios that encourage jurors to deliberate about their digital rights. This paper compares two formats for these scenarios: live actors and professionally recorded and edited videos of the same actors. Results failed to show any major differences between formats indicating the cost-effectiveness of the video-recorded format and the possibility for others to run the 5Rights Youth Juries with the support of an online open educational resource.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Civil Rights
  • Education, Distance*
  • Female
  • Focus Groups
  • Humans
  • Information Literacy*
  • Jurisprudence
  • Male
  • Online Systems
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Video Recording
  • Young Adult

Grants and funding

This work forms part of the CaSMa and UnBias projects, funded by Economic and Social Research Council grant ES/M00161X/1 and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant EP/N02785X/1 respectively, and based at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham.