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Expanding social discovery, Tagged-style

September 23, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Usually when you hear "social discovery," someone's talking about an alternative to search engines – finding what you want with the help of your friends. It's a feature of Facebook for example. But the social network site Tagged.com, which is all about social discovery, defines it in a different, very interesting way. Instead of being about existing friends (social networks) discovering new … [Read more...] about Expanding social discovery, Tagged-style

Filed Under: gaming, Social Media Tagged With: Clay Shirky, Elections, social change, social discovery, social games, social gaming, Tagged

1st look at Facebook’s ‘social [abuse] reporting’

March 11, 2011 By Anne 4 Comments

On the social Web, where content is not just communication but behavior as well, safety is a shared experience. A single user can't guarantee it, no matter how optimized his privacy settings and practices are, nor can a site – not when people can tag, copy, forward, and instantly mass-distribute photos of and info about each other. That's why education about civility, citizenship, and safety … [Read more...] about 1st look at Facebook’s ‘social [abuse] reporting’

Filed Under: media shift, Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social norms Tagged With: abuse reporting, Clay Shirky, cyberbullying, Facebook, online safety, social reporting

‘Cognitive surplus’ calls for more media-literacy

July 30, 2010 By Anne 3 Comments

The information (and production) overload of the digital era creates more of everything: both high- and low-quality content coming from everybody, amateur to professional. To quote the quoter (policy pundit Adam Thierer reviewing tech pundit Clay Shirky's book Cognitive Surplus), "Shirky argues (p. 47), 'The low-quality material that comes with increased freedom accompanies the experimentation … [Read more...] about ‘Cognitive surplus’ calls for more media-literacy

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, media shift, Social Media Tagged With: Adam Thierer, Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, media literacy

Youth, adults & the social-media shift

September 29, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

No wonder adults, born and raised in the 20th century's mass-media environment are struggling to wrap our brains around current media conditions – and what "Net safety" should look like under them. We're in the middle of a Gutenberg Press-style media shift, multiplied by 3. Author and media pundit Clay Shirky talks about the four previous media shifts that "qualify for the term revolutionary," all … [Read more...] about Youth, adults & the social-media shift

Filed Under: media shift, Social Media Tagged With: Clay Shirky, conventional media, Henry Jenkins, Susan Boyle

Why participatory media need to be in school

June 19, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Writer, tech consultant, and educator Clay Shirky just gave a talk at the State Dept. explaining the media sea change we're experiencing globally. Keeping participatory media, the most fluent though not necessarily most literate users of which are youth, out of school only solidifies the firewall between formal and informal learning and holds school back from 21st-century relevance. Isn't the idea … [Read more...] about Why participatory media need to be in school

Filed Under: education technology, participatory culture, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: Clay Shirky, Howard Rheingold, Michael Wesch

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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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