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The metaverse and the Meta part

October 31, 2021 By Anne 5 Comments

I hadn’t read Snow Crash. So I first learned about the metaverse in 2008, right after returning from a family trip around the world and a few months before Barack Obama was elected President for the first time. I was a little disoriented coming back to America after 10 months in many other countries, especially during an election year, and it didn’t help that I was attending my very first ISTE … [Read more...] about The metaverse and the Meta part

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Americus Reed, Berkman Klein Center, Facebook, Kevin Jarrett, Maria Ressa, Marianne Malmstrom, Matthew Ball, Meta, metaverse, Microsoft, Nvidia, Peggy Sheehy, Peter Pomerantsev, Roblox

Take-aways from the ‘Facebook Files’

October 9, 2021 By Anne 4 Comments

What a week it has been, right? At least for those of us who follow and/or use social media. There was the naming of whistleblower Frances Haugen on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, US time; the hours-long outage of all of Facebook’s products Monday; Haugen’s testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday, a report that hackers were offering for sale 1.5 billion people’s public data they scraped from Facebook; and … [Read more...] about Take-aways from the ‘Facebook Files’

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Anya Kamenetz, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Kate Klonick

New game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters

September 21, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

It’s definitely not your typical American high school – not the one in “Agents of Influence.” But high school is the backdrop, which is smart for a media literacy videogame aimed at middle schoolers, right? Especially a sketchy, slightly dystopian fictional one like “Virginia Hall High,” in which the game is set. First, the school occupies what used to be the HQ of “the Omni-Directional … [Read more...] about New game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Agents of Influence, Alterea, Anahita Dalmia, Kickstarter, media literacy, NAMLE, videogame

Countering ‘hate raids’ needs to be coordinated too

September 2, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

The “hate raids” on Twitch spotlight an important online safety reality: It’s increasingly a cross-platform effort. Hate raids, or hate spam, is harassment on steroids and, as the Washington Post points out, it’s a form of online harm that has been around for years but “became a larger Twitch concern [last] month after a streamer … posted a video of themselves getting raided.” Because … [Read more...] about Countering ‘hate raids’ needs to be coordinated too

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: Casey Newton, Discord, hate raids, hate spam, hate speech, Instagram, Limits, live streams, livestreaming, Safety Mode, streamers, Twitch, twitter, viral hate

Apple & the child online safety challenge

August 26, 2021 By Anne 3 Comments

2nd important update Sept. 19: As if in direct response to the open letter from privacy activists around the world, the WeProtect Global Alliance published their own statement saying Apple must not pause its expanded protections, the Guardian reported. I stand by my thoughts in the update just below. We need privacy activists and protection activists in the same room answering the questions: Would … [Read more...] about Apple & the child online safety challenge

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, sexual exploitation Tagged With: Alex Hern, Apple, Ben Thompson, Casey Newton, CDA, CDT, Center for Democracy and Technology, Children's Code, Convention on the Rights of the Child, COPA, digital rights, eSafety Commissioner, Facebook, Gillian Hadfield, Google, John Carr, Julie Cordua, Microsoft, NCMEC, Project Protect, Tech Coalition, Technology Coalition, Thorn, UNCRC

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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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