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The latest on US teens’ social media use

August 12, 2022 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Emily Vogels, Facebook, Instagram, Navid Massarat, Pew Research Center, reddit, Risa Gelles-Watnick, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube

Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

December 28, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

What a year it has been for child online safety, right?! There was the adoption of General Comment 25, bringing all things digital into the global Convention on the Rights of the Child; the draft Online Safety Bill and Parliament’s response in the UK; the release of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s Safety by Design for the tech industry and investors; the Age Appropriate Design Code coming into … [Read more...] about Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: #DigitalDecade4YOUth, #GoodforMedia, Adam Mosseri, Age Appropriate Design Code, AI for Children, All Tech Is Human, Berkman Klein Center, Better Internet for Kids, C2PA, CRC, eSafety, European Commission, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Harvard University, Headstream, HX, Insafe, Instagram, Integrity Institute, Jeff Allen, Meta, metaverse, Netsafe, Online Safety Bill, People Make Games, Rebooting Social Media, Richard Blumenthal, Roblox, Safety by Design, Sahar Massachi, Sophie Zhang, Stanford University, systems thinking, Technology Coalition, Telosity, Trust and Safety Professionals Association, UN Convention, UNCRC, UX, Western Sydney University, whistleblower, Young and Resilient Research Center

Countering ‘hate raids’ needs to be coordinated too

September 2, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

The “hate raids” on Twitch spotlight an important online safety reality: It’s increasingly a cross-platform effort. Hate raids, or hate spam, is harassment on steroids and, as the Washington Post points out, it’s a form of online harm that has been around for years but “became a larger Twitch concern [last] month after a streamer … posted a video of themselves getting raided.” Because … [Read more...] about Countering ‘hate raids’ needs to be coordinated too

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: Casey Newton, Discord, hate raids, hate spam, hate speech, Instagram, Limits, live streams, livestreaming, Safety Mode, streamers, Twitch, twitter, viral hate

Digital wellness: What is, & isn’t, parody

August 30, 2019 By Anne 1 Comment

phone case

“Social media seriously harms your mental health” goes the message on the back of smartphones ironically held in the perfectly manicured hands of super models and other social media influencers, two of whom get “hundreds of thousands of likes on nearly every photo they post to Instagram,” the Verge reports. The message is on the back of a clear plastic phone case that has gone viral but not … [Read more...] about Digital wellness: What is, & isn’t, parody

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Social Media Tagged With: Amanda Third, Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Candice Odgers, Carrie James, Instagram, Michael Rich, Moira Burke, parody, Robert Kraut, Urban Sophistication

How teens’ social media use changing: New Pew study

June 1, 2018 By Anne Leave a Comment

Pew chart

Parents of teens probably knew this already, but the Pew Research Center just confirmed it for everybody: YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are US 13-17 year-olds' top social media picks now – at 85%, 72% and 69%, respectively. That's according to Pew's just-released "Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018." [The percentages add up to more than 100% because, as is well known, teens use multiple … [Read more...] about How teens’ social media use changing: New Pew study

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Facebook, Instagram, Pew Research Center, reddit, Snapchat, Tumblr, twitter, YouTube

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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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