Teens and Information Quality: An Intersectionality-Based Dissertation in Progress Exploring Fitness Information and Social Media

Abstract

This paper is part of the SIGMIS CPR doctoral consortium, summarizing a dissertation in progress. This dissertation explores how youth, teenagers in particular, search for, evaluate, and create exercise and nutrition information they interact with via social media. This dissertation also employs an Intersectionality lens to examine the ways in which the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic status relate to the ways in which teens make decisions about information online.