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Manage Net risk but focus more on opportunities: Researchers

July 22, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

That's what the authors of the latest "Net Children Go Mobile" report conclude: It's great that the UK is "in many ways … leading in children's Internet safety," but "complacency would be ill-advised" and this success could be leading to a new kind of risk: reduced opportunity in and with connected media for British children. "By comparison with some other European countries, the UK appears to … [Read more...] about Manage Net risk but focus more on opportunities: Researchers

Filed Under: mobile, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Giovanna Mascheroni, Jane Vincent, Kjartan Olafsson, Leslie Haddon, mobile, Net Children Go Mobile, smartphones, social media research, Sonia Livingstone

Social media major factor in teens’ social & sex lives: Australia study

July 1, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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With its 5th national study of Australian teens' sexual attitudes, behaviors and health since 1992, La Trobe University for the first time took a careful look at social media's role in their social and sexual lives, finding that it plays a significant one. "Our survey clearly shows the major role social media has in the negotiation and development of sexual relationships," said the study's lead … [Read more...] about Social media major factor in teens’ social & sex lives: Australia study

Filed Under: kids, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Research, Risk & Safety, sexting, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Anne Mitchell, Australia, La Trobe University, media literacy, sex education, sexting, sexual health, youth sexuality

Zooming in on social norms: Youth sexting study

June 25, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

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The research on teen and young adult sexting is getting more granular. One of the more interesting findings in a new study at Drexel University indicated that social norms are clearly developing around the practice. Looking at frequency of youth sexting, the study – published in the academic journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy – found that, "though many respondents [undergraduates at "a … [Read more...] about Zooming in on social norms: Youth sexting study

Filed Under: mobile, Research, Risk & Safety, sexting, Youth Tagged With: digital photos, Drexel University, sexting, social media research

Facebook’s new Slingshot aimed at Snapchat

June 20, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

There are no lurkers in the Slingshot app. It's Facebook's latest answer to users' interest in disappearing (often called "ephemeral") media and messages. What I mean by "no lurkers" is, as my ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid explains, unlike Snapchat and Facebook's now defunct Poke, "in order to view someone’s photo or video, you have to send one back [in Slingshot] Facebook bills the app as … [Read more...] about Facebook’s new Slingshot aimed at Snapchat

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: ephemeral, slingshot, Snapchat

Amazon’s Fire Phone could be a hot holiday item

June 20, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Now there's a phone that puts the Amazon store and all that accompanying "retail therapy" right in people's pockets. It's a pretty slick looking little device, so here's fair warning to parents worried about kids getting caught up in consumer culture that you may see this on some wish lists. [Of course, this is not to say that Amazon.com with all its convenience isn't already in our pockets (and … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Fire Phone could be a hot holiday item

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Parenting Tagged With: 3D, Amazon, Android, apps, Fire Phone, mobile technology, smartphone

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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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