TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS:
UNDERSTANDING DIGITALLY MEDIATED GROOMING AS AN INSTITUTIONAL PROCESS

2022

“In this text, I will demonstrate how digitally mediated grooming functions as an institutional process through a cross examination of my own experiences with academic research through the critical lens of three core infrastructures: legal, cultural, and political. This culminates in an understanding that the war for children's protection is paradoxically against children themselves, as their security is granted only at the expense of their freedom.”