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"Commercialisation and sexualisation of adolescence: The right to one?s own life"

01.07.2003 | Vedeler, Janikke Solstad

The research project with the working title ?Commercialisation and sexualisation of adolescence: The right to one?s own life? (Kommersialisering og seksualisering av ungdomstiden: Retten til sitt eget liv) is initiated by several Norwegian NGOs working with children and adolescents, including Save the Children Norway. Social anthropologist Ingrid Smette, NOVA (Norwegian Social Research), will undertake the study under the direction of Dr.psychol. Elisabeth Backe-Hansen, NOVA. The project will begin in August 2003 and the final report will be published in the autumn of 2004.

The study will focus on adolescents? own perceptions of what constitutes sexual abuse and sexual pressure. What do they define as criteria of abusive sexual relationships? How does context influence these categorizations and definitions? Two complementing methods will be applied: Focus group interviews on the one hand and research on the Internet on adolescents? experiences with sexual pressure and sexual abuse in chat rooms on the other. A third and subsidiary source of data will be discussions with adolescent members of the NGOs who have initiated the project.

Ingrid Smette's project.doc (22.5 Kb)

Published by Norway, Vedeler, Janikke Solstad Created 01.07.2003 Updated 26.08.2003