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For our kids & ourselves: Presence in a digital age

July 25, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Presence has never been harder or more needed – in this age of hyper transparency, connection, opinion and information, all in a media environment that's networked, so that "speed of delivery" is a calculation of the past (it's all just here already). Presence is needed by adults as much as children. It means different things to different people, including "attentiveness," "focus," and … [Read more...] about For our kids & ourselves: Presence in a digital age

Filed Under: child development, empathy, kids, Parenting, self-harm, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: attention, Catherine Steiner-Adair, danah boyd, Kellie Edwards, mindfulness, presence, Robert Epstein

Pretty faces in social media vs. mass media

April 23, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

The story about the impact of all those 'pretty friends' in social media on self-esteem offers one good explanation for self-presentation fatigue. Researchers in the UK, Iowa and Ohio used Facebook to look at the impact on body image of selfies in social media vs. photos of celebrities and other beautiful people in magazines. They found that comparing oneself to Facebook friends "can make a young … [Read more...] about Pretty faces in social media vs. mass media

Filed Under: eating disorders, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, self-harm, Social Media Tagged With: April Smith, body image, exploring identity, photoshopping, self-image, Social Media

Don’t hype sexting risks to teens

August 7, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

To have credibility with teens, here's what education against sexting needs to factor in (and this can be applied to all Internet safety ed): "Citing risks that students experience as unusual (or even rare) may greatly diminish the impact of any information," wrote psychology professor Elizabeth Englander. "For example, many adults teach kids that once you send a picture digitally, you lose … [Read more...] about Don’t hype sexting risks to teens

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety, self-harm, sexting Tagged With: Bridgewater State University, cellphones, digital photos, Elizabeth Englander, MARC, Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, mobile technology, risk prevention, sexting, sexual harassment, social media research, texting

Some DIY porn makers start young

May 12, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Do-it-yourself porn production is a growing trend, reports KATU News in Portland, Ore., and some producers get into it out of financial desperation, they say. One mentioned in this report started when she was 17. KATU cites psychologists as saying there's danger to DIY porn, "both to the viewer and the provider." Dr. Ryan Hosley told KATU "that watchers of the videos become addicted because it … [Read more...] about Some DIY porn makers start young

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, self-harm Tagged With: DIY porn, pornography

A call to action on eating disorder sites

September 23, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Britain's Royal College of Psychiatrists called for "urgent action" to protect online youth vulnerable to pro-eating-disorder Web sites, the BBC reports. It says the number of such sites has "soared with the growth of social networking," and the government's year-old Child Internet Safety Council should expand its definition of harmful sites to include those promoting anorexia (pro-ana) and … [Read more...] about A call to action on eating disorder sites

Filed Under: eating disorders, Risk & Safety, self-harm Tagged With: Facebook, pro-ana, pro-mia, Royal College of Psychiatrists

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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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