• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

NetFamilyNews.org

Tech Intelligence for Parents

Show Search
Hide Search
  • Home
  • Youth
  • Parenting
  • Literacy
  • Safety
  • Policy
  • Research
  • About NetFamilyNews.org
    • Supporters
    • Anne Collier’s Bio
    • Copyright
    • Privacy

self-harm

Undercover Mom in Stardoll, Part 2: The skinny on virtual paperdolls

April 24, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

By Sharon Duke EstroffIn case there’s any doubt over which is more fun - trying on real clothes at Bloomingdales or trying on virtual clothes at a Stardoll department store - there shouldn’t be. The latter is the hands-down winner.Having survived recent bathing suit shopping trauma, I found dressing up MattieLu, my Stardoll avatar, to be a little slice of shopping heaven. Every frock I slipped … [Read more...] about Undercover Mom in Stardoll, Part 2: The skinny on virtual paperdolls

Filed Under: eating disorders, Risk & Safety, self-harm Tagged With: body image, Stardoll, Undercover Mom, virtual paperdolls

Self-injurers on the social Web

March 27, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Here's one example of the opportunities for social-Web safety as our field emerges from predator panic to focus on research-based strategies: how to help self-injuring teens. I was prompted to write about this by an article headlined "Self-injury on the rise among young people" in the Los Angeles Times. Cutting and embedding (embedding objects like paper clips or staples for recurring self-harm) … [Read more...] about Self-injurers on the social Web

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, self-harm Tagged With: William Shiels

Self-published child porn in UK

March 19, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

I just posted on youth as self-published pornographer, but here's an exhaustive take on the subject from across the Atlantic. In the UK so far, 90 UK youth "have been cautioned as a result of posting sexual material of themselves or their underage friends online or on their mobile phones," the Daily Mail reports. I'll tell you more about the piece in a second but want to zoom right in on the … [Read more...] about Self-published child porn in UK

Filed Under: international online safety, Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, self-harm, sexting, Youth Tagged With: Daily Mail

Social sites: Teen ‘confessionals’?

August 5, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

The focus of Forbes's profile of MyYearbook.com is how it can monetize this "freewheeling chatfest," I guess after it burns through the $13 million round of venture capital it recently received. But it's the lead of the article that I found arresting: Forbes writer Emily Schmall tells of a 14-year-old MyYearbook user's story of self-mutilation in the site: "Her 1,240-word piece is illustrated by a … [Read more...] about Social sites: Teen ‘confessionals’?

Filed Under: self-harm, social networking Tagged With: myYearbook

French legislation against pro-thin promotion

April 23, 2008 By Anne 1 Comment

A bill that has passed the French legislature's lower house and goes to the Senate soon is going after all media promoting eating disorders, including pro-anorexia Web sites, the Los Angeles Times reports. Forbes reports that "France has several laws in place to regulate modeling agencies, including requiring underage models to have regular health check-ups." Regulating the domestic fashion … [Read more...] about French legislation against pro-thin promotion

Filed Under: eating disorders, international social networking, Law & Policy, self-harm, Social Media, social networking

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

NFN in your in-box:

Anne Collier


Bio and my...
2016 TEDx Talk on
the heart of digital citizenship

Subscribe to my
RSS feed
Friend me on
Facebook
Follow me on
Twitter
See me on
YouTube

IMPORTANT RESOURCES

SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
U.S. schools delete cyberbullying

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
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
Future of Privacy Forum
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
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
National Association for Media Literacy Education
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
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"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)

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Spark Change: The book taking (digital) citizenship to a whole new level
  • Digital wellness: What is, & isn’t, parody
  • Uncontroversial: Online porn in sex ed
  • DIY community care: 1 sign of a new Net safety era
  • Higher & deeper views of kids online
  • Digital youth: Honor ALL their rights
  • The TikTok sensation
  • The Internet’s changing. Internet safety needs to too.

Footer

Welcome to NetFamilyNews!

Founded as a nonprofit public service in 1999, NetFamilyNews quickly became the “community newspaper” of a vital interest community of subscribers in more than 50 countries. Site and newsletter became a blog in the early 2000s. Nowadays, you can subscribe in the box to the right to receive articles in your in-box as they're posted – or look for tweets, posts on our Facebook page, and key commentaries from Anne on her page at Medium.com. She welcomes your comments, follows and shares!

Categories

  • Home
  • Youth
  • Parenting
  • Literacy
  • Safety
  • Policy
  • Research

ABOUT

  • About NFN
  • Supporters
  • Anne Collier’s Bio
  • Copyright
  • Privacy

Search

Subscribe



THANKS TO NETFAMILYNEWS.ORG's SUPPORTERS DOMAIN NAMES AND WEB HOSTING UK AND HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM.
Copyright © 2019 ANNE COLLIER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.