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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

An 18-year-old’s exploration of ‘Internet addiction’ in video

May 14, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Eoin Corbett

In a series of man-on-the-street interviews, one young woman's answer to the question, "Do you think you're addicted to the Internet?" was: "Yes…. Twitter. I can't get off of it." Another responded, "I love creeping on Facebook. I never post; I'm just always creeping, creeping, creeping [also called "lurking," looking at people's comments, likes, photos, etc.]." A third said, "I just run to the … [Read more...] about An 18-year-old’s exploration of ‘Internet addiction’ in video

Filed Under: addiction, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CyberPsychology Research Center, digital sabbath, Dr. Ciaran McMahon, Eoin Corbett, experiential learning, Facebook, Internet addiction, presence, Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, self-awareness, Social Media, twitter, unplugging

‘Internet addiction’: New ‘disorder’ about age-old needs?

January 29, 2014 By Anne 3 Comments

Judging by the just-released documentary Web Junkie, about a Chinese "Internet addiction" treatment center, it's loneliness that's at the heart of what the Chinese officially call a clinical disorder (more often called "problematic Internet use" in the West). If you can get past the boot-camp-like conditions and young patients' (inmates'?) tears, you'll get to a scene – at 4:50 into the … [Read more...] about ‘Internet addiction’: New ‘disorder’ about age-old needs?

Filed Under: addiction, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Internet addiction, Internet addiction treatment, Tao Ran, Web Junkie

Puzzling over ‘Internet addiction’

August 21, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

While the US mental healthcare field is considering whether "Internet addiction" is a disorder, it doesn't seem to understand how vast and diverse Internet use is. When a CNN reporter asks psychiatry professor Charles O'Brien at University of Pennsylvania – chair of the working group that determines whether disorders make an official list in the United States – about it, both use "Internet … [Read more...] about Puzzling over ‘Internet addiction’

Filed Under: addiction, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: gaming addiction, Internet addiction, Jane McGonigal, psychiatry, Social Media

‘Net addiction’ & depression

August 24, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

One young person's strategy for so-called Net addiction is FreeFace.com. He commented in a New York Times blog asking students for their strategies that, as a part-time student [who] "found myself drifting sometimes, usually to news websites or Facebook," he started using this time management software that restricts access to sites and programs during time periods the user sets for him or herself. … [Read more...] about ‘Net addiction’ & depression

Filed Under: addiction, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Internet addiction, youth risk research

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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
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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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