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We need to manage the social media backlash too

February 5, 2018 By Anne 2 Comments

Child's drawing

It's like a moral panic on steroids. Adding to the "reckoning" already under way since the 2016 election (see Related links below) is the news yesterday of a new, high-profile coalition of some of social media's creators and backers and Common Sense Media. The steroids part is the funding ($7 million from individuals, the Omidyar Network and Common Sense Media), the PR ($50 million in donated … [Read more...] about We need to manage the social media backlash too

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Anya Kamanetz, Common Sense Media, David Finkelhor, digital rights, Henry Jenkins, Sonia Livingstone, Stephen Heppell

The state of global youth, digitally speaking: Research

December 16, 2017 By Anne 2 Comments

UNICEF's SOTWC 2017 report

There could be no better year-end wrap-up or gift for stakeholders in youth online safety worldwide than UNICEF's just-released "State of the World's Children…in a Digital World." In it are the latest research, stories and commentaries from multiple international perspectives, including, to its credit, those of young people in 26 countries. In addition to their views and practices, the report … [Read more...] about The state of global youth, digitally speaking: Research

Filed Under: childrens rights, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Achila Imchen, Amanda Third, Brian Keeley, digital parenting, digital rights, GDPR, Internet addiction, Michael Rich, Mimi Ito, parental consent, Sonia Livingstone, UNICEF, youth rights

6 takeaways from 20 years of Net safety: Part 2

July 19, 2017 By Anne 8 Comments

Teens using tech

Now that I've just passed the 20-year mark of writing about youth and digital media, I thought I'd share with you my top takeaways as a participant observer in the Internet safety space. Here's Part 1. Now the three chunks of Part 2: 4. It's individual, situational and contextual. Internet safety works best from the inside out, from the child out not the headlines in. I love the irony of … [Read more...] about 6 takeaways from 20 years of Net safety: Part 2

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, digital rights, EU Kids Online, ISTTF, Jens Qvortrup, Sonia Livingstone, UNCRC

Europe’s big step backward for youth rights online, offline

January 20, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

Young people and parents everywhere should know that, where youth rights are concerned, Europe just took a big step backward. Even though every single one of the European Union's 28 countries has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, whose Article 12 states that "children" (people under 18) have the right to express their views in all matters affecting them, a European agreement … [Read more...] about Europe’s big step backward for youth rights online, offline

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: digital citizenship, digital rights, EC, EU, GDPR, General Data Privacy Regulation, Jasmina Byrne, John Carr, One in Three, Sonia Livingstone, UNCRC, youth rights

9 parts of digital citizenship

September 19, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

These make complete sense ("complete" as in comprehensive, too). The nine elements grew out of a three-year PhD dissertation project by educator Mike Ribble at Kansas State University. Mike defines "digital citizenship" as "the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use." The nine elements are Digital Etiquette (I think I'd use the broader term "ethics," which … [Read more...] about 9 parts of digital citizenship

Filed Under: Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: digital rights

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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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