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Youth cybersecurity concerns & what will reduce them: Research

October 10, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

This being National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we might ask how secure young people are feeling online. According to two just-released studies, not so much. But there's some light in there, so stay with me. A Microsoft survey of 13-17 year-olds in 14 countries found that 43% had experienced unwelcome contact at some point. The study also surveyed adults and found that 58% of young people … [Read more...] about Youth cybersecurity concerns & what will reduce them: Research

Filed Under: cyberbullying, identity theft, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, Security, sexting, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CASEL, cybersecurity, digital literacy, media literacy, Media Literacy Now, Microsoft, National Cyber Security Alliance, SEL, social literacy

Online harassment 2016: Fresh data

August 8, 2016 By Anne 3 Comments

I get a lot of press releases in my email in-box. This one about harassment in social media truly surprised me because it was balanced, cited data responsibly, did not appeal to people's fears and represented clear understanding of today's media environment. The survey of Americans 18+ – a project of Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.com and craigconnects.org, and social impact consultants … [Read more...] about Online harassment 2016: Fresh data

Filed Under: cyberbullying, hate speech, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens Tagged With: bullying, Craig Newmark, craigconnects, Craigslist, cyberbullying, hate speech, Lincoln Park Strategies, online harassment, Rad Campaign

Behind the scenes of safety & free speech in social media

April 14, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

For a must-read article for anyone interested in safety and free speech online, some of the social media industry's most seasoned content moderators – the apps' and sites' safety managers and free speech decisionmakers – went public for the first time. "Their stories reveal how the boundaries of free speech were drawn during a period of explosive growth for a high-stakes public domain, one … [Read more...] about Behind the scenes of safety & free speech in social media

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media Tagged With: Catherine Buni, community moderators, content moderation, Facebook, Soraya Chemaly

Our humanity, not our tech, is the key to fixing online hate

February 9, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

To mark Safer Internet Day 2016, let's take stock of what we've learned so far and what we can do with the knowledge we've gained so far about online hate.... It has taken a couple of decades but, collectively, we're definitely getting smarter about online risk and how to avoid and address it. We're also getting smarter about how people of various ages, cultures and interests experience and … [Read more...] about Our humanity, not our tech, is the key to fixing online hate

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Annie Fox, Crash Override Network, dehumanization, Ian Rivers, online hate, social literacy, social-emotional learning, Sonia Livingstone, Zoe Quinn

Europe’s big step backward for youth rights online, offline

January 20, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

Young people and parents everywhere should know that, where youth rights are concerned, Europe just took a big step backward. Even though every single one of the European Union's 28 countries has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, whose Article 12 states that "children" (people under 18) have the right to express their views in all matters affecting them, a European agreement … [Read more...] about Europe’s big step backward for youth rights online, offline

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: digital citizenship, digital rights, EC, EU, GDPR, General Data Privacy Regulation, Jasmina Byrne, John Carr, One in Three, Sonia Livingstone, UNCRC, youth rights

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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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