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Study shows Net supports civic engagement

January 19, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Certainly "clicktivism" isn't the all of social activism – it's a complement to it – but it's clear the Internet is an increasingly important support to civic engagement in this country, a just-released Pew/Internet survey shows. According to Pew's report, 75% of US adults are active in some kind of voluntary group, and 80% of those who use the Net are (compared with 56% of non-Internet users). … [Read more...] about Study shows Net supports civic engagement

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: civic engagement, clicktivism, Deb Socia, Ellen Helsper, Magdalena Bober, Matt Levinson, Pew Internet, public service, social activism, Social Media, Sonia Livingston, volunteer work

An Oversight Board & what’s actually, urgently, needed

June 4, 2020 By Anne 1 Comment

Homemade sign at protest

Below you'll find background and context to this pivotal point for social media. For a more prescriptive view, click to "Social media's turning point: 5 steps needed now, no turning back."  Suddenly things that looked like important, almost radical (potential) fixes a few months ago now seem like “band-aids” or symptom treatments. Suddenly we need a great deal more. By “we,” I mean us, our … [Read more...] about An Oversight Board & what’s actually, urgently, needed

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Social Media Tagged With: Barry Schnitt, Conan O'Brien, Facebook, George Floyd, Oversight Board, Peter Pomerantsev, Philip Howard, Po Chi Wu, Samantha Bradshaw, Sheila Jasanoff, Snapchat, twitter, Van Jones, Yascha Mounk, YouTube, Zack Beauchamp

2 new papers spell a turning point for digital safety & citizenship: Part 2

May 14, 2020 By Anne 5 Comments

35 digital citizenship frameworks

The timing struck me. Though it seems all of life is at an inflection point now, in the middle of a pandemic, two new papers that represent a pivotal moment for digital safety and citizenship education are published almost at the same time. Individually and together, they offer new guidance that simply mustn’t be lost in the Covid-19 din. Thus this 2-part series. Part 1 was on safety, and here’s … [Read more...] about 2 new papers spell a turning point for digital safety & citizenship: Part 2

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: 21st-century skills, Alexa Hasse, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Berkman Klein Center, digital citizenship, digital literacy, media literacy, Sandra Cortesi, SEL, social-emotional learning, Sonia Kim, Urs Gasser, Youth and Media Team

4 resolutions for Internet safety 2020

January 1, 2020 By Anne 2 Comments

"Until now, protecting children on the Web has primarily meant keeping them off it,” wrote NPR’s Anya Kamenetz at TechnologyReview.com. Exactly. That has been the direct experience of children all over the world. Because for some 20 years, all around the world, governments, advocates, businesspeople, educators, parents have actually been trying to uphold our children’s rights of protection by … [Read more...] about 4 resolutions for Internet safety 2020

Filed Under: childrens rights, Research, Youth Tagged With: 5rights Foundation, Amanda Third, Anya Kamenetz, children's rights, CRC, digital rights, General Comment, Greta Thunberg, ICO, KidsRights, Mariya Stoilova, Olivia Van Ledtje, rights, Sheil Jasanoff, Sonia Livingstone, UNCRC, youth rights

Higher & deeper views of kids online

June 23, 2019 By Anne 2 Comments

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A metaphor used by Global Kids Online researchers in a new blog post reminds me of research in the US that represented a huge digital youth milestone for me almost a decade ago – then of brand-new insights. The metaphor is that of a ladder – a progression of online activities kids and teens engage in, starting with the most “attractive and accessible” ones, like watching video or hanging out … [Read more...] about Higher & deeper views of kids online

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Youth Tagged With: Affinity Online, Amanda Wortman, Crystle Martin, Daniel Kardefelt-Winther, Digital Youth Project, EU Kids Online, Global Kids Online, Katie Salen, Matthew H. Rafalow, Mimi Ito, Rachel Cody Pfister, Sonia Livingstone

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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