Australian young people are highly connected people, on the whole. Part of the reason, probably, is that they're such mobile users. They're "disproportionately likely" to be online with a smartphone or other handheld device, according to the AU Kids Online report. "Whereas 46% of Australian [9-to-16-year-olds] say they access the Internet via a smart handheld device other than a basic mobile … [Read more...] about Net use: How young Australians line up with kids in 25 other countries
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Online risk in kids’ own words: A research milestone
Up until now, the vast majority of studies about youth online risk have presented kid respondents with risks pre-determined by adults – for example, "the four main risks on the public policy agenda," as the authors of a new report from EU Kids Online put it. Rarely do surveys of and about children ask the kids about risk from their own perspective.* So this is news: With its new report "In … [Read more...] about Online risk in kids’ own words: A research milestone
Study on long-neglected factor in Net safety: Resilience
As a society, we've been talking about youth online risk for years, but we've only just begun to talk about young people's resilience, which is what helps them keep risk from turning into harm. It's important to know, as the authors of an important new report note, that resilience – the ability to deal with negative experiences without being upset by them – doesn't come from avoiding risk, online … [Read more...] about Study on long-neglected factor in Net safety: Resilience
Our Safer Internet Day 2012…
I meant the "Our" in the headline in a global way. All of us. We know this, of course, but we don't think about it enough: It's literally our Internet – across generations and borders, this very participatory, dynamic media environment that's updated by all of us in real time, 24/7, seven days a week. I love that the European Commission's Internet safety group – the source of Safer Internet Day, … [Read more...] about Our Safer Internet Day 2012…
From Europe, Top 10 online-risk myths
The EU Kids Online researchers look at young people's Internet use in a child-centric, contextual way and confirm how individual their Net use is. The individuality of their online experiences is a theme I've seen over and over in North American research too over the past 10 years, as a journalist and as a member of two national Net-safety task forces, highlighting the importance of a … [Read more...] about From Europe, Top 10 online-risk myths