ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on workshops that brought together researchers and pupils from a secondary school and a youth activity centre in the Oslo region, to discuss and reflect on how ethical issues are interwoven in their social media lives. The activities in the workshop included asking participants to log into their favourite social media platform, list all the content they see and explain why they thought the content appeared like this on their feeds. We also asked them to make a list of values they thought social media promotes, to complete stories depicting problematic interactions on social media, and to create a speech monitoring app. This chapter examines the ethics of youth participation from an empirical and a methodological standpoint. It examines the ability of young people to reflect critically on the ethical and moral issues related to participation on social media. We explore the role of creative techniques in eliciting young people's reflections and understandings of ethical issues emerging from digital cultures on social media. This chapter underlines one of the main arguments of this book about the need for collaborative creative research methods to approach young people's social media literacies.
