Howard Spencer

March 24, 2024

Navigating the Digital Frontier: The Intersection of Cybersecurity Challenges and Young Adult Life

Introduction

This topic is about the era of young adults that has been dominated by digital landscapes and interconnected networks. This topic relates to the principles of social sciences because it gives great explained information that relates to social sciences that include behavioral patterns, risk perception, and policy implications. The article’s research questions want to make the audience understand the importance of knowing the cyberspace and expectations to have before searching information that prevents young adults from being attacked. This article informs the audience about how to get young adults to understand digital landscapes and interconnected networks through education and empowering young adults with knowledge and tools to navigate in cyberspace safely. The type of research methods this article portrays for these young adults is analyzing young adult’s social media usage and screen time, who these young adults interact with, and observing and analyzing young adult’s behaviors in digital environments. The types of data and analysis done in this article was the language barrier for experts to see “The authors examined whether a similar impact would be observed for non-English speaking people when such information is shared in their native language” Navigating the Digital Frontier: The Intersection of Cybersecurity Challenges and Young Adult Life (bridgew.edu). Another way this article shows the type of data and analysis is providing young adults with the proactive and knowledgeable education empowering their digital network skills. This article relates to the concepts used in the power point that consists of culture and Cybersecurity and the Social Norms and Cybersecurity power point slide as well. The reason I say this topic relates to the power point slide 3 is because in the article it discusses how there are different ways the authors used to figure out who’s behind a digital screen due to the language barrier and the data they are given once found out who was behind everything. In the power point slide 4-5 relates to this article because it explains the value of what professionals think about the issues that these young adults in this article don’t see and how to put a stop to any digital issue a young adult may come across. This topic relates to the challenges, concerns and contributions of Marginalized groups because in the article it uses examples that explain how cyber attacks occur and the consequences of once a young adult explores the digital technology world. The overall contribution of this article is trying to get young adults to understand the importance and prevention of cybersecurity landscapes. 

Conclusion

In conclusion, Navigating the Digital Frontier article is a great article for young adults to follow up on because it gives great information providing help to educate young adults about the digital world, we live in by providing educational tips, examples, and dominant information used to progress in the digital landscapes.