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Farhad Manjoo

Dot-com bust, 2022-style

November 13, 2022 By Anne 4 Comments

It’s the end of an era as I head to Washington and this year's “FOSI" – shorthand for the Family Online Safety Institute’s annual gathering … [Read more...] about Dot-com bust, 2022-style

Filed Under: media shift, Social Media Tagged With: Chloe Bailey, Elon Musk, Evan Spiegel, Family Online Safety Institute, Farhad Manjoo, FOSI, Jeff Jarvis, Mastodon, Mike Masnick, Steven Levy

The new non-fake news & Snapchat

December 6, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Last week I wrote about fake news, this week about its opposite. This is very real news, as captured by bystanders on the spot – curated and given app-wide exposure by an app. This is quite likely to be how our children will get a lot of their news going forward, so I want to be sure you don't miss what was at the bottom of New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo's important article about … [Read more...] about The new non-fake news & Snapchat

Filed Under: apps, Literacy & Citizenship, media shift, Social Media Tagged With: fake news, Farhad Manjoo, Live Stories, media literacy, Snapchat

Social media literacy in an app

January 16, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

Brilliant concept. A source of quick, digestible social media literacy delivered by an app, not parents (one reason why it's so digestible). I'm talking about the ThinkUp app. It's definitely not just for teens, but what a great application for a reputation-curation and media-mindfulness tool. It's so much more powerful than just googling oneself or getting a service like Reputation.com to help … [Read more...] about Social media literacy in an app

Filed Under: apps, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: Anil Dash, app, Farhad Manjoo, mobile, online reputation, smartphone, Thinkup

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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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