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‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report

December 13, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

Research in the report

What better subject to zoom in on during the holiday season than play? I've written a lot on the subject, here, through the years but, in a way, this is Part 4 of a series I started in 2009 (here are the 2nd and 3rd parts). So now, at the turn of a new year, it’s not only a perfect time but high time to come back to the power of play. Happy holidays to all who celebrate them, happiness to those … [Read more...] about ‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report

Filed Under: childrens rights, Parenting, play, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Connected Camps, Digital Futures Commission, Fortnite, gaming, Kruakae Pothong, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Nintendo, RingFit, Roblox, Scott Nicholson, Sonia Livingstone, Stuart Brown, TikTok, videogames, WhatsApp, Wii, YouTube, Zoom

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

If anything needs to go viral, it’s this…

July 2, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

...the message, "Report it. Don't share it."  The "it" in this public awareness campaign Facebook just launched is child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the accurate term for what is typically called "child pornography" in the United States. Thankfully, it's extremely unlikely you'll ever see content like this. "The prevalence of this content on our platform is very low," Facebook researchers … [Read more...] about If anything needs to go viral, it’s this…

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety, sexting, sexual exploitation Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, Facebook, TechCoalition, Technology Coalition

Key piece of the puzzle: Australia’s ‘Safety by Design’ tools

June 22, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

A vital piece of the global online safety puzzle has just fallen into place: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s Office this week unveiled its Safety by Design tools for Internet companies everywhere. They’re the outgrowth of extensive international research and consultation with people in industry, government, academia and advocacy, including youth and parents – a process eSafety started in … [Read more...] about Key piece of the puzzle: Australia’s ‘Safety by Design’ tools

Filed Under: international online safety, Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: eSafety, Gillian Hafield, Julie Inman Grant, Office of the eSafety Commissioner, Safety by Design, Tarleton Gillespie

Could platforms design for 2nd chances?: Insight from key study

May 28, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

No stage of life is easy, but being a teen is hard in a very particular way. “Adolescence is a period of rapid cognitive, social and emotional development,” said researcher Amanda Lenhart, Health & Data lead at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, at a conference this week, for example. “They’re a protected legal category. They don’t have the same power or ability to make … [Read more...] about Could platforms design for 2nd chances?: Insight from key study

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Lenhart, Candice Odgers, Data & Society, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Kellie Owens, TTC Labs

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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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