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Finally! A YouTube (flexibly) designed for kids 9-12

February 24, 2021 By Anne Leave a Comment

Tweens are no longer little kids, but they’re also not yet teens. Like all their peers, younger and older, 9-to-12-year-olds love to explore and mess around with media, especially video. They want to be safe so they don’t have to worry, which means they really don’t mind a little help from parental types, but they also don’t want to be contained in an app for “little kids.” YouTube Kids, which … [Read more...] about Finally! A YouTube (flexibly) designed for kids 9-12

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, tweens, video Tagged With: Google, parental controls, YouTube, YouTube Kids

Pepe the Frog, GameStop & the gamification of reality

February 4, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

You probably heard about GameStop, the WallStreetBets subreddit, Robinhood app and what’s been called the biggest “short squeeze” in 25 years –  all of which was last week boiled down to the phrase “meme stock mania.” You also may’ve heard of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character created for a comic book in 2005 that somehow, in a weird, circuitous, Internet way, became a meme for the alt-right, … [Read more...] about Pepe the Frog, GameStop & the gamification of reality

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Alison Gopnik, alt-right, Arthur Jones, GameStop, gamification, Giorgio Angelini, hedge funds, John Herrman, Kevin Roose, Martin Gurri, Matt Furie, meme, meme stock mania, memes, Nathan Fisk, Pepe the Frog, Rich Roll, Robinhood, Sean Illing, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Trump, Vox, Wall Street, WallStreetBets

Young artists & activists wrapping 2020 in light

December 28, 2020 By Anne 12 Comments

So many of us lost heart, our voices, our strength at different points in the past year, and possibly none more than young people. “Since the start of the pandemic, mental health-related emergency department visits increased by 31% for 12-17-year-olds,” Mental Health America cites data from the Centers for Disease Control as showing. And according to YPulse, 64% of Gen Z-ers themselves say their … [Read more...] about Young artists & activists wrapping 2020 in light

Filed Under: childrens rights, music, teens, Youth Tagged With: #homeschoolmusicalhbomax, #sunshinesongs, Alexandria Villasenor, Amanda Lenhart, Class of 2020, Darren Lachtman, David Attenborough, FOSI, Gen Z, Greta Thunberg, Homeschool Musical, Jerome Foster, Johbn Lewis, Julia Morgan-Canales, Laura Benanti, Mental Health America, Millennials, Reggie McCrimmon

Beyond ‘The Social Dilemma’ to social solutions

September 20, 2020 By Anne 5 Comments

Film poster

The Social Dilemma, now on Netflix, is a polemic, not a documentary. I mean, the Oxford English Dictionary says a documentary “provides a factual record or report,” and this film does not do that. There’s nothing wrong with a polemic, or a wakeup call. It’s perfectly reasonable to create a film with the intention to wake people up from using tech and media unthinkingly. It is wrong to represent … [Read more...] about Beyond ‘The Social Dilemma’ to social solutions

Filed Under: Research, Social Media Tagged With: Candice Odgers, Jaron Lanier, Justin Rosenstein, Nathan Schneider, Sara DeWitt, Shoshana Zuboff, Sonia Livingstone, Trebor Scholz, Tristan Harris

‘Automated fame’: 1 of the TikTok stories of the moment

September 10, 2020 By Anne Leave a Comment

You’ve undoubtedly seen news stories about Charli D’Amelio, 2020’s 16-year-old TikTok phenomenon, with 6 billion likes and 82 million followers since she joined the app last spring. It was the part about “automated fame” that really caught my attention in a New Yorker story this past weekend. Charli became “the most popular creator on TikTok” partly just because of who Charli is – a very grounded … [Read more...] about ‘Automated fame’: 1 of the TikTok stories of the moment

Filed Under: apps, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Charli D'Amelio, influencer, TikTok

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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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