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Literacy & Citizenship

Future safety: Content moderators and digital grassroots justice

January 31, 2023 By Anne 1 Comment

A flash of insight occurred the other day as I was listening to a conversation between two completely remarkable lawyers: Vivek Maru, founder of Namati, the nonprofit organization behind the Global Legal Empowerment Network of more than 3,000 organizations and 13,043 individuals in 170+ countries, and Preeta Bansal, who was general counsel and senior policy advisor to the federal Office of … [Read more...] about Future safety: Content moderators and digital grassroots justice

Filed Under: international online safety, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: #tscollective, Catherine Buni, children's rights, community paralegals, content moderation, content moderators, General Comment 25, Global Legal Empowerment Network, justice system, lawyers, legal empowerment, legal system, Namati, Oversight Board, platforms, Preeta Bansal, social justice, Soraya Chemaly, Tarleton Gillespie, TSPA, Vivek Maru

Media literacy and an invasion: The view from Estonia

March 2, 2022 By Anne 1 Comment

As I write this today, less than a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I’m wearing three hats: those of a digital safety specialist, a proud board member of the US’s National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and a digital nomad who loves Estonia, where I’m based this year. The third hat first, with a little geographical and cultural context. The start of the invasion was … [Read more...] about Media literacy and an invasion: The view from Estonia

Filed Under: Internet safety education, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Convene the Council, Council on Foreign Relations, Estonia, iCivics, Kersti Kaljulaid, Margus Gering, NAMLE, refugees, Russia, Sandra Day O'Connor, Tallinn, Ukraine, Ukrainians

9 things that make viral hoaxes challenging

November 18, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

Remember “Blue Whale”? Almost five years ago, when I was getting to the bottom of that murky hoax, it wasn’t yet understood as one. It was being called a “suicide game,” and those two words were scaring parents around the world, literally. I was looking all over the Web for reliable sources and found my best one – still one of the world’s top experts on the subject, I believe – to be Georgi … [Read more...] about 9 things that make viral hoaxes challenging

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Blue Whale, Georgi Apostolov, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, hoax, Momo, Praesidio Safeguarding, Richard Graham, TikTok, viral challenge

New game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters

September 21, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

It’s definitely not your typical American high school – not the one in “Agents of Influence.” But high school is the backdrop, which is smart for a media literacy videogame aimed at middle schoolers, right? Especially a sketchy, slightly dystopian fictional one like “Virginia Hall High,” in which the game is set. First, the school occupies what used to be the HQ of “the Omni-Directional … [Read more...] about New game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Agents of Influence, Alterea, Anahita Dalmia, Kickstarter, media literacy, NAMLE, videogame

Yup. New ‘Blue Whale’ with a Momo-style twist

July 16, 2020 By Anne 3 Comments

creepy Goofy

Here we are again. Remember “Blue Whale,” then “Momo”? Well, the B.W. challenge, or self-harm “game,” has been warmed over and repackaged with a new name and face with the creepiness of a Momo. This time it’s a weird, scary version of the cartoon character Goofy. [I don’t know—does familiarity make it less scary or more so?] In any case, its predecessors were both hoaxes, so it would be hard for … [Read more...] about Yup. New ‘Blue Whale’ with a Momo-style twist

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Blue Whale, Creepy Goofy, Cursed Goofy, Jonathan Galindo, Momo, viral hoax

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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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