NetFamilyNews.orgAn article in the medical journal Pediatrics this month makes significant additions to what we know about youth risk online in two areas: parenting and risk factors for older teen girls (the sample was girls 14-17). The authors of “Association of Maltreatment With High-Risk Internet Behaviors and Offline Encounters” pointed to what we already know: [...]
This may seem a little off-topic, as it’s not fundamentally about technology, but social media can be a tool in the healing process. Let me explain. More than 5 million US children (275 million worldwide) are dealing with domestic violence – what UNICEF calls “one of the most damaging unaddressed human rights violations in the [...]
Based on old fears around online chat and Webcams, should all the news about videochat in Facebook and the new very social Google+ concern parents (when the latter goes public)? Not really. Not the sort of engaged parents who tend to be concerned, and definitely not those who approach these things from the kid out [...]
A third major mile marker in our collective (global) understanding of how to mitigate youth online risk just fell into place: “Munch, Poke, Ping: Vulnerable Young People, Social Media and E-Safety,” a brand-new report to Britain’s Training & Development Agency (TDA), the agency responsible for the training and development of that country’s school workforce, including [...]
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