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Zooming in on social norms

July 28, 2014 By Anne 4 Comments

This is a sidebar to my earlier post about social norms as one of the solutions to social cruelty online – in case readers would like a little more definition. Social norms are practically super powers. As I mentioned in my main post, this doesn't occur to us much because, well, these are norms, after all – part of the wallpaper, socially speaking. They're everyday behavior based on intangibles … [Read more...] about Zooming in on social norms

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, social influencing, social norms Tagged With: Jonah Berger, social norming, social norms, Wesley Perkins

The anti-EDIs social norm: A counterargument

July 10, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Woman checking phone

They're more like DEDIs (digitally enabled displays of insensitivity) than EDIs (electronic displays of insensitivity), because the behavior is human not electronic. But that's beside the point. This NPR commentary suggests that EDIs are becoming a social norm. It cites an unscientific survey of 2,000 newsletter subscribers as finding that this insensitive behavior – people checking their phones … [Read more...] about The anti-EDIs social norm: A counterargument

Filed Under: Ethics & Etiquette, social influencing, Social Media, social norms Tagged With: cellphones, digital rudeness, EDIs, manners, presence, smartphones

For solving social problems: The social media jujitsu remix

June 13, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

Jujitsu

The other day I blogged about the collective conscious that social media users could become – are becoming, actually. Then I wrote about how users themselves – and not just ethical venture capitalists – could demand that startups bake safety and other pro-social basics into their apps and other services and that anti-social policies in established services get fixed. Then I watched this … [Read more...] about For solving social problems: The social media jujitsu remix

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, participatory culture, Risk & Safety, social influencing, Social Media, social norms Tagged With: collective conscious, collective unconscious, Ilyse Hogue, social activism, Social Media, social problems, stigma jujitsu

‘Compassion mobs’ & other digital-age nonviolence stands

October 24, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

You've probably heard the phrase "kill 'em with kindness" for disarming detractors, well in social media it's more like swamping – flooding – public, sometimes collective, cruelty with kindness, acceptance, respect, etc. That was a powerful tactic used by students I wrote about in Part 1 of this series, but it has been practiced to huge ripple effect by students in Nova Scotia, Iowa, Minnesota, … [Read more...] about ‘Compassion mobs’ & other digital-age nonviolence stands

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, hate speech, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, social influencing Tagged With: bullying, Chuck Nguyen, compassion mob, cyberbullying, Cyberslammed, flash mob, Justin Patchin, martial arts, nonviolence, online risk prevention, risk prevention

Developing self in the digital age

August 5, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

Yet another article on Twitter by an expert in something (like authoring or marketing books) who's new to Twitter ran in the New York Times this week. I think it's much more interesting to read articles about Twitter by anybody (not necessarily an expert) who's not new to Twitter – in other words, someone who knows that Twitter use is highly individual and not all trivial pursuits, celebrity … [Read more...] about Developing self in the digital age

Filed Under: adolescent development, social influencing, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: child development, digital age, identity formation, new sociology of youth, Social Media, social Web

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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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