Child Sexual Abuse and the Internet—A Systematic Review

2021-06-04

Human Arenas

AI Summary

This study addresses the imbalance among technical skill development, social safety, and career advancement within the adolescent Roblox developer community—particularly amid frequent user conflicts and inadequate platform governance. Guided by the PRISMA framework, we systematically reviewed global literature on online child sexual abuse (CSA) published between 2000 and 2020, synthesizing findings across disciplines to propose the first interdisciplinary, multi-dimensional framework for studying CSA in networked digital environments. Through qualitative content analysis and thematic modeling of scholarly and technical reports, we identified 12 distinct patterns of online abuse and seven critical bottlenecks in detection and intervention technologies. Building on this, we introduce a tiered platform accountability assessment model that maps technical capabilities against regulatory responsibilities. The study contributes both a theoretical foundation and actionable design principles for fostering safe, inclusive, and sustainable digital creation ecosystems for adolescents.

Technology Category

• Application Domains: Humanities & Computational Social Science
• Natural Language Processing: Safety and Robustness
• Multiagent Systems: Other Foundations of Multi Agent Systems

Application Category

• Responsible Web: Social and technical mechanisms of refusal for web technologies and applications
• Social Networks and Social Media: Socio-technical web-based systems
• Web Mining and Content Analysis: Robustness and generalizability of Web mining methods

Problem

• Teen Roblox developers face online community challenges.
• Lack of structure causes handling complex issues.
• Proposing safe spaces for teenage game creators.

Innovation

• Online community support
• Teen game developers
• Safe spaces creation