Approved by the CUNY Graduate Center IRB: 12/20/11 to 12/20/12

MyDigitalFootprint.org is a participatory action design research project conducted by the Youth Design and Research Collective (YDRC) and approved by the Institutional Review Board of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. The YDRC is Asmaou Amadou, Kaitlin Crandall, Gregory Donovan, Rose Morisset, Yvonne Ndiaye, and Saif Uddin. Gregory Donovan is the Principal Investigator of this research project and a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Psychology Ph.D. Program at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

MyDigitalFootprint.org aims to learn about young people’s experiences with the internet and how these experiences shape understandings of privacy, property, and security in digital environments. This project will contribute to an ongoing academic conversation on the relationship between people, places, and information technologies.

The YDRC invites you to fill out a questionnaire, in the form of a social profile, so that we can learn about your experiences with the internet. Based on your responses, and the responses of other participants, we’ll connect you with relevant research addressing shared concerns and interests.

Your email address, age, and location will be known only to the YDRC and your participation in MyDigitalFootprint.org will remain entirely anonymous. All other information provided by you, through your social profile, will be visible only to you, the YDRC, and other MyDigitalFootprint.org participants.

Your participation in MyDigitalFootprint.org is completely voluntary and you may refuse to participate at any time with no penalty. If you wish to delete your MyDigitalFootprint.org account and profile at anytime, you may do so by: 1) Logging into your account; 2) Selecting “Settings” on your profile’s toolbar; 3) Selecting “Delete Account” in your profile’s sub toolbar.

Setting up your account and completing a social profile should take approximately 20 minutes of your time. There will be approximately 100 participants taking part in the first phase of this project. The risk from participating in this research is no more than that encountered in everyday life.