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Datafied Childhoods the book

April 12, 2022 By Anne 2 Comments

A grabbier headline for this post might be “Screens are watching us back,” but that would be like so many scary news headlines parents are subjected to. More importantly, it wouldn’t do justice to all that this important new book – Datafied Childhoods, by Profs. Giovanna Mascheroni in Italy and Andra Siibak in Estonia – offers us. It provides…. Preparation not only for handling the new tech … [Read more...] about Datafied Childhoods the book

Filed Under: Parenting, Privacy, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: AI, Alex Feerst, Alicia Blum-Ross, Amanda Third, Andra Siibak, AR, Charlotte, data, datafication, decentralized Web, Divine Maloney, Faisal Galaria, Giovanna Mascheroni, Janet Haven, Jill Walker Rettberg, Leslie Haddon, mediatization, metaverse, MR, Nathan Fisk, Neil Selwyn, Privacy, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Lordan, Veronica Barassi, VR, Web3, Willner, XR

Millennials’ changing social media use: Survey

August 28, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

Ypulse chart

It's hard to believe the high end of the Millennials age bracket is over 30 already! The Pew Research Center's definition says they're all adults, putting their age range at 18-33 (check out Pew's 6 distinguishing characteristics of this generation), while Ypulse.com has a range of 14-32, a huge spectrum, considering 14-year-olds have just started high school and lots of 32-year-olds are already … [Read more...] about Millennials’ changing social media use: Survey

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: data, Facebook, Instagram, Millennials, Pew Internet Project, Snapchat, social media research, twitter, Vine, YouTube, YPulse

In the face of school violence, what do we default to?

April 10, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

CCRC chart

Certainly what all the coverage of the Murrysville, Pennsylvania, school stabbings indicates is a society trying to make sense of a so far inexplicable tragedy, but there is no – zero – sense or accuracy in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's "report" that this is "the latest face of the national epidemic of school violence." There is no such epidemic. In fact, the latest national data available shows a … [Read more...] about In the face of school violence, what do we default to?

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: attack, Crimes Against Children Research Center, data, Forbes Regional Hospital, Franklin Regional High School, Murrysville, Nate Scimio, Pittsburgh, school violence, stabbing

Two milestone Facebook products

October 7, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Facebook announced two significant new products today (Oct. 6) – not the privacy-feature tweaks and redesigns users have become accustomed to and not like Places, which had us all scrambling to work out the privacy and safety implications (here's what I blogged about on that). Your data download The first pushes right past Facebook's claim that you own the content you put in the site to … [Read more...] about Two milestone Facebook products

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: content, data, data download, Facebook, Groups, Mark Zuckerberg, online safety, Places, privacy controls, privacy features, social networking

Most online Chinese youth access Net via phone

May 5, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Nearly half of China's 400+ million Net users are under 25, and 75% of those U25s are accessing the Web on their mobile phones, reports Agence France Presse, citing a new survey by the China Internet Network Information Centre. Nearly 70% of those Chinese youth go online via desktop computers, suggesting many use both, but this was the first time research showed that phones were the No. 1 platform … [Read more...] about Most online Chinese youth access Net via phone

Filed Under: mobile, Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: China, data, internet research, mobile technology

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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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