Abortion access and policies
This week’s questions are about abortion. Abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. When you think about abortion, what comes to mind? Where do people your age get information about accessing abortion? The federal government and many state...Access to healthcare
Where do you go for a health problem you can’t solve on your own (family doctor, ER, urgent care, school clinic etc.)? Why do you go there? Do you have a regular doctor you go to for check-ups or when you feel sick? If you don’t have a regular doctor, why not? Do you...
MyVoice Active Shooter Drill Researcher on Colorado Public Radio
N’Dea Moore-Petinak, MyVoice researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, spoke to Colorado Public Radio for a June 22, 2021 piece “Active Shooter Drills Are Part of School Life. Can They Be Done Better?.” The piece mentions MyVoice research that N’Dea led on youth experiences and perceptions of active shooter drills at their schools. The Myvoice paper was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Young people want justice for bad social media behavior, more action from platforms
A new MyVoice paper, led by youth social computing expert and Associate Professor of Information Sarita Schoenebeck, Ph.D., analyzed MyVoicers’ responses to questions about online harassment and bullying and how it should be resolved both interpersonally and through the policies and practices of social media companies. Read this press release from the University of Michigan and find the paper abstract published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.