You know how realtors say it's all about "location, location, location"? That may be useful in the online context too, but what I'm hearing in a little video interview with Jane Burns, CEO of Australia's new Cooperative Research Center for Youth, Technology & Wellbeing (second one down on this page), is "conversation, conversation, conversation." See if you hear that too; here's a … [Read more...] about ‘Top 5 things parents should know about youth online’: Study
MS & FB’s help in fighting child abuse imagery
What digital technology enabled, digital technology is thankfully helping to disable. The ability to share photos online revived the child-pornography "scourge that had nearly been eliminated in the late 1980s," the New York Times reports, but technology developed by Microsoft and just starting to be implemented by Facebook – PhotoDNA – may "help to beat it back again." The Times says the … [Read more...] about MS & FB’s help in fighting child abuse imagery
Social media: Time to end the laments & get on with it, maybe?!
I wrote it before I read New York Times executive editor and parent Bill Keller's stylish dismissal of social media, but "Hawk drama (& human drama) in the digital age" would've been my response. It was about how we really need to think about "the observer effect" on both the experiment (red-tailed hawks, or youth in social media) and the observer (people at the viewer end of the "hawk cam," … [Read more...] about Social media: Time to end the laments & get on with it, maybe?!
Kids’ & teens’ social networking in Europe
Last week a look at social networking U13s on Facebook in the US; this week, a fascinating, more in-depth look at Europe, thanks to the thorough, recently released pan-European research of EU Kids Online. Though there's a lot of variation country by country, European youth as a whole are just as avid a group of online social networkers as American kids and teens are, if not more so. Among … [Read more...] about Kids’ & teens’ social networking in Europe
Oddly presented, but 1 way social media protect kids
"Teachers must be cautious in utilizing social media" was the headline in the Courier Post in New Jersey. What a bizarre takeaway that is from this tragic occurrence: "Last month, criminal charges were filed against Charles Reilly, a veteran teacher (and since-resigned town councilman) in Pine Hill [N.J.]. Reilly is accused of having inappropriate sexual conversations with male middle school … [Read more...] about Oddly presented, but 1 way social media protect kids