May and Bay: Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Southeast Asia — Using Digital Games in Preventative Education

IF 1.4 Q2 SOCIAL WORK
Emerita Jane Reeves, Stephanie E. Jones, Aravinda Kosaraju, David Shemmings, Paul Rigby, Kristen Scharf, Emma Soutar
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This article follows the journey of creating a digital preventative education programme for combating online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) and child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia. Created and rolled out over 2 years as part of the End Violence Against Children (EVAC) grant during the COVID-19 global pandemic, this article sets out how the programme was designed, with direct input from children and professionals, and underpinned by human rights and contextual safeguarding principles. It outlines how collaborative approaches between children, academia, expert NGO’s, and professionals have resulted in a thought-provoking digital programme (May and Bay) that sensitively tackles sexual grooming and promotes child safeguarding. The article highlights how the game focuses on the interplay between children’s choices online and the environmental constraints they face, with the lead characters May (aged 11) and Bay (aged 13) making ‘risky’ and ‘safe’ choices against interacting aspects of their social and digital environments. The game supports the development of digital competence among children and professionals by promoting awareness of online harms emanating from the interplay of technology with children’s micro, meso, and macro environments against a range of people whose interaction with them may be ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’. It recognises children, peers, parents, carers, professionals responsible for safeguarding, media, legislators, and local non-governmental and international aid organisations as potential ‘attractors’ or ‘agents within the system’ whose combined efforts can change how child safeguarding systems respond.

梅和贝东南亚的在线儿童性剥削和性虐待--利用数字游戏开展预防教育
本文介绍了泰国和柬埔寨为打击网络儿童性剥削和性虐待 (OCSEA) 以及儿童性贩运而创建数字预防教育计划的历程。作为 COVID-19 全球大流行期间 "终结暴力侵害儿童(EVAC)"资助项目的一部分,该项目历时两年创建和推出,本文阐述了该项目是如何在儿童和专业人员的直接参与下,以人权和背景保障原则为基础进行设计的。文章概述了儿童、学术界、非政府组织专家和专业人士之间的合作方式如何产生了一个发人深省的数字计划(《五月与海湾》),以敏感的方式解决性诱导问题并促进儿童保护。文章重点介绍了该游戏如何关注儿童的在线选择与他们所面临的环境限制之间的相互作用,主角梅(11 岁)和贝(13 岁)在社会和数字环境的相互作用下做出了 "危险 "和 "安全 "的选择。该游戏通过促进儿童和专业人员对技术与儿童微观、中观和宏观环境的相互作用所产生的在线危害的认识,以及与他们进行 "安全 "或 "不安全 "互动的一系列人员,来支持儿童和专业人员数字能力的发展。它将儿童、同伴、父母、照顾者、负责保护的专业人员、媒体、立法者以及当地非政府组织和国际援助组织视为潜在的 "吸引者 "或 "系统内的代理人",他们的共同努力可以改变儿童保护系统的应对方式。
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2.00
自引率
8.30%
发文量
33
期刊介绍: This journal offers an outlet for articles that support social work as a human rights profession. It brings together knowledge about addressing human rights in practice, research, policy, and advocacy as well as teaching about human rights from around the globe. Articles explore the history of social work as a human rights profession; familiarize participants on how to advance human rights using the human rights documents from the United Nations; present the types of monitoring and assessment that takes place internationally and within the U.S.; demonstrate rights-based practice approaches and techniques; and facilitate discussion of the implications of human rights tools and the framework for social work practice.
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