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Pretty faces in social media vs. mass media

April 23, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

The story about the impact of all those 'pretty friends' in social media on self-esteem offers one good explanation for self-presentation fatigue. Researchers in the UK, Iowa and Ohio used Facebook to look at the impact on body image of selfies in social media vs. photos of celebrities and other beautiful people in magazines. They found that comparing oneself to Facebook friends "can make a young … [Read more...] about Pretty faces in social media vs. mass media

Filed Under: eating disorders, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, self-harm, Social Media Tagged With: April Smith, body image, exploring identity, photoshopping, self-image, Social Media

Timely for Safer Internet Day: Game-changing insight into Internet risk

February 5, 2014 By Anne 3 Comments

One of the milestones of Internet safety was the distinction between risk and harm made by the pan-European researchers of EU Kids Online back in 2011. "Risk must be distinguished from harm,” they wrote in a report based on surveys of more than 25,000 9-to-16-year-olds in 25 countries. “As with riding a bike or crossing the road, everyday activities online carry a risk of harm, but this harm is … [Read more...] about Timely for Safer Internet Day: Game-changing insight into Internet risk

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Internet safety, resilience, risk-taking, Sonia Livingstone, vulnerability

Highest social networking growth among Americans 65+

August 13, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

No one thinks social media is kid stuff anymore, right? If they do, they should check out this CNET article that says more than 72% of US adults now use social network sites, that figure up from 67% just five months before, CNET reports, citing just-released Pew Internet Project figures. And that's not just young adults. "One of the more striking stories about the social networking population," … [Read more...] about Highest social networking growth among Americans 65+

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Pew Internet Project, Social Media, social networking

Minecraft & the shared, creative safety of gaming, social media

June 27, 2013 By Anne 11 Comments

Minecraft screenshot

Reporters and reviewers write about Minecraft as if it's just like any other videogame. Even this highly readable piece about its creator (Markus Persson, aka "Notch") and its parent company (Mojang) by Harry McCracken in Time magazine doesn't cover what makes it different from other games specifically for its kid (and parent) players. But he does bring out this extraordinary differentiating … [Read more...] about Minecraft & the shared, creative safety of gaming, social media

Filed Under: gaming, Parenting, Social Media, videogames Tagged With: COPPA, digital citizenship, Marianne Malmstrom, Massively Minecraft, MineCraft, Parenting, resilience, Safety, teaching, videogames, Xbox 360

Instagram adds video

June 21, 2013 By Anne 2 Comments

Instagram adds video

Facebook's little photo-sharing app just became a video-sharing app too. Whether they're using Apple or Android phones, Instagram's 130 million users can now simply pick whether that image they want to capture is better static or in motion, then click on either the little camera or videocam icon (see the left-hand screenshot below). If they go with video, they can capture up to 15 seconds (no … [Read more...] about Instagram adds video

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media, video Tagged With: app, cellphones, Cinema, filters, Instagram, mobile phones, Social Media, video sharing, videos

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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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