NetFamilyNews.orgAustralian young people are highly connected people, on the whole. Part of the reason, probably, is that they’re such mobile users. They’re “disproportionately likely” to be online with a smartphone or other handheld device, according to the AU Kids Online report. “Whereas 46% of Australian [9-to-16-year-olds] say they access the Internet via a smart handheld [...]
Up until now, the vast majority of studies about youth online risk have presented kid respondents with risks pre-determined by adults – for example, “the four main risks on the public policy agenda,” as the authors of a new report from EU Kids Online put it. Rarely do surveys of and about children ask the [...]
An 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: [...]
“Eating disorders affect between 1 and 4 percent of young adult women” and are on the increase, diagnoses having “risen more than 50% since the 1970s,” according to the authors of “Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online.” But, before this important study, rare coverage in the news media did little besides [...]
Researchers keep coming up with different numbers, but what doesn’t change is that… Most kids do not engage in bullying or cyberbullying There’s considerable overlap between online and offline aggression among kids who do Bullying is not on the rise, but there’s more of it going on than cyberbullying The prevalence of cyberbullying has been [...]
The EU Kids Online researchers look at young people’s Internet use in a child-centric, contextual way and confirm how individual their Net use is. The individuality of their online experiences is a theme I’ve seen over and over in North American research too over the past 10 years, as a journalist and as a member [...]
To survey 9-to-16-year-olds and their parents in 25 countries, UK-based EU Kids Online came up with questions and definitions that people of all ages and many cultures and languages could understand – bringing a useful sense of definition to youth advocates worldwide. Here are the online “risk factors” about which all the researchers (based throughout [...]
Facebook has committed $200,000 to fund “world-class research” at universities and nonprofit organizations that “highlights trends associated with Digital Citizenship, broadly, with an initial focus on bullying prevention,” according to Facebook’s blog post. Researchers, you have about a month – till midnight, California time, on Monday, Sept. 12 – to apply for $25,000-50,000 grants. Topics [...]
Researchers in Europe found that the young people who find it easier to be themselves online the most are those who have the most difficulties with offline relationships.
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