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Aggregated extortion, digital footprints’ dark side & second chances

October 8, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

This is the chilling side of the digital footprint (something that everybody has) – chilling because the takeaway seems to be that nobody can make a mistake anymore. Web sites with names like BustedMugshots and JustMugshots claim they're doing society a favor by publishing photos that document arrests (not convictions) en masse. And when prospective employers or even people looking for a date or … [Read more...] about Aggregated extortion, digital footprints’ dark side & second chances

Filed Under: digital footprint, Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, reputation, Risk & Safety Tagged With: arrest records, digital ethics, digital footprint, ethics, Golden Rule, Jeffrey Rosen, media literacy, mug shots, reputation, search engines

Of babies’ (then older kids’) privacy rights

August 29, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

This is a perennial question, but it's good that it keeps coming up. In Disney's Babble.com, parenting blogger Katie (last name wisely not provided for her son's privacy), again asks when a child's right to privacy kicks in and whether parents are violating that right by sharing photos in social media. "I believe that yes, my son has a right to privacy," she writes, "but I also believe that … [Read more...] about Of babies’ (then older kids’) privacy rights

Filed Under: digital footprint, Parenting, reputation, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Amber Teamann, Lisa Belkin, online rights, Parenting, reputation

Smart public image management in social media

October 16, 2012 By Anne 4 Comments

High school students are displaying serious online spin control skills in their college quests. It's more like "public image management" than the reputation management so often referred to in online-safety discussions. In an interview for ReadWriteWeb.com, a high school teacher in Reno, Nev., called it "admissions jiu jitsu," referring to his students' workarounds for college and university … [Read more...] about Smart public image management in social media

Filed Under: digital footprint, reputation, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: college admissions, Facebook, online reputation, profiles, Social Media, Timeline, youth

The social Web, reputations & an election

November 9, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Five years ago was, I think, was the first time I wrote about young Net users needing to be good spin doctors and get in touch with their inner political consultants. I was thinking more about protecting reputations and future prospects than opportunities to run for office. But now we've had the first election in which politicians have had to confront the social-Web skeletons in their closets, the … [Read more...] about The social Web, reputations & an election

Filed Under: digital footprint, reputation, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: 2010 election, digital footprint, digital trail, Facebook, public image, reputation management, Social Media, spin control

Our children’s digital dossiers

October 25, 2010 By Anne 4 Comments

New parents probably don't think of baby blogs and online photo albums as part of their children's digital dossiers or footprints, but that's what they are. The computer security company AVG recently surveyed parents with Internet access and children under age two in 10 countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, the UK, and the US), asking them "when they … [Read more...] about Our children’s digital dossiers

Filed Under: digital footprint, Literacy & Citizenship, reputation, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: AVG, baby photos, digital dossier, digital footprint, family photos, new media literacy, online reputation, reputation management, Social Media

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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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