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Cyber Security and Online Safety Education for Schools in the UK: Looking through the Lens of Twitter Data

Knott, Jamie, Yuan, Haiyue, Boakes, Matthew, Li, Shujun (2023) Cyber Security and Online Safety Education for Schools in the UK: Looking through the Lens of Twitter Data. In: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. . 1603- 1606. ACM, New York, USA ISBN 978-1-4503-9517-5. (doi:10.1145/3555776.3577805) (KAR id:101794)

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Abstract

In recent years, digital technologies have grown in many ways. As a result, many school-aged children have been exposed to the digital world a lot. Children are using more digital technologies, so schools need to teach kids more about cyber security and online safety. Because of this, there are now more school programmes and projects that teach students about cyber security and online safety and help them learn and improve their skills. Still, despite many programmes and projects, there is not much proof of how many schools have taken part and helped spread the word about them. This work shows how we can learn about the size and scope of cyber security and online safety education in schools in the UK, a country with a very active and advanced cyber security education profile, using nearly 200k public tweets from over 15k schools. By using simple techniques like descriptive statistics and visualisation as well as advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques like sentiment analysis and topic modelling, we show some new findings and insights about how UK schools as a sector have been doing on Twitter with their cyber security and online safety education activities. Our work has led to a range of large-scale and real-world evidence that can help inform people and organisations interested in cyber security and teaching online safety in schools.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
DOI/Identification number: 10.1145/3555776.3577805
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ767.9 Children. Child developement
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High school teaching
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 75 Electronic computers. Computer science
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunications > TK5105 Data transmission systems > TK5105.5 Computer networks > TK5105.875.I57 Internet
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunications > TK5105.888 World Wide Web
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
University-wide institutes > Institute of Cyber Security for Society
Funders: University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
Depositing User: Shujun Li
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2023 18:28 UTC
Last Modified: 22 Jun 2023 14:26 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/101794 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Knott, Jamie: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1666-631X
Yuan, Haiyue: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6084-6719
Boakes, Matthew: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9377-6240
Li, Shujun: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5628-7328
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