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The latest on US teens’ social media use

August 12, 2022 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Emily Vogels, Facebook, Instagram, Navid Massarat, Pew Research Center, reddit, Risa Gelles-Watnick, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube

Most kids are fine online: New study

May 6, 2022 By Anne 5 Comments

Graphic from May 2022 study

It’s time for a serious rethink about teen mental health and digital media, an important report urges – because “most adolescents using technology do so in ways that do not lead to increased risk of negative health consequences,” write the authors of “Adolescent Digital Technology & Media Use,” led by Megan Moreno, MD, at the University of Wisconsin. “Most” is a key word, there, because … [Read more...] about Most kids are fine online: New study

Filed Under: at-risk teens, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: adolescent health, Jens Eickhoff, Kole Binger, Matt Minich, Megan Moreno, Qianqian Zhao, Yalda Uhls

Datafied Childhoods the book

April 12, 2022 By Anne 2 Comments

A grabbier headline for this post might be “Screens are watching us back,” but that would be like so many scary news headlines parents are subjected to. More importantly, it wouldn’t do justice to all that this important new book – Datafied Childhoods, by Profs. Giovanna Mascheroni in Italy and Andra Siibak in Estonia – offers us. It provides…. Preparation not only for handling the new tech … [Read more...] about Datafied Childhoods the book

Filed Under: Parenting, Privacy, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: AI, Alex Feerst, Alicia Blum-Ross, Amanda Third, Andra Siibak, AR, Charlotte, data, datafication, decentralized Web, Divine Maloney, Faisal Galaria, Giovanna Mascheroni, Janet Haven, Jill Walker Rettberg, Leslie Haddon, mediatization, metaverse, MR, Nathan Fisk, Neil Selwyn, Privacy, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Lordan, Veronica Barassi, VR, Web3, Willner, XR

Powerful parenting for child safety online, offline

March 11, 2022 By Anne 2 Comments

“The importance of a strong, positive relationship between a parent and child cannot be overstated. Reams of research has shown this to be true,” writes Prof. Justin Patchin of the Cyberbullying Research Center (CRC). And yet over the 20+-year-long public discussion about child online safety we’ve seen so little evidence – especially in news coverage and hearings on Capitol Hill – that all this … [Read more...] about Powerful parenting for child safety online, offline

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Alicia Bum-Ross, Amanda Third, Cyberbullying Research Center, Justin Patchin, Lucas Walsh, P4DF, Philippa Collin, Rosalyn Black, Sameer Hinduja, Scott Nicholson, Sonia Livingstone

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

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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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