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The Internet’s changing. Internet safety needs to too.

March 7, 2019 By Anne Leave a Comment

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced a sea change for Facebook, one that "will mean taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the internet," he wrote. I think he's right, and not just because Facebook is the Internet in some countries or because its products have affected elections and the public order (or lack thereof) in many countries, including ours. I agree, too, … [Read more...] about The Internet’s changing. Internet safety needs to too.

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: end to end encryption, Facebook, Internet safety, Living Online Lab, Mark Zuckerberg, public health, Tencent, WeChat

Digital safety 2019: The new ‘middle layer’ of user care (Part 2)

January 7, 2019 By Anne 6 Comments

Part 1 of this series was 2018 highlights. Now it’s time to shine light on some interesting ideas and developments that people have surfaced for a better Internet in 2019 and beyond. We’ll look at a new middle layer of user care that’s being discussed by some – and gradually being built out, little by little, worldwide. Called for by the conditions of our new media environment, it’s a new layer of … [Read more...] about Digital safety 2019: The new ‘middle layer’ of user care (Part 2)

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Alex Stamos, eSafety Commissioner, Facebook, Gillian Hadfield, helplines, Insafe, Julie Inman Grant, Mark Zuckerberg, Netsafe, super-regulation, Tarleton Gillespie, Tijana Milosevic, University of Toronto

Social media’s next phase: A new social contract?

March 29, 2018 By Anne 2 Comments

Title page of Rousseau's "A Social Contract"

The "Cambridge Analytica scandal," as seen in so many headlines, is giving way to a more thoughtful – and crucial – international discussion about not only data privacy but an even bigger question: where our social development is at this point in the planet's technological development, the part we call the Internet. Here are a few thoughts on that and, below them, links to coverage that I feel … [Read more...] about Social media’s next phase: A new social contract?

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Social Media Tagged With: Alexandra Samuel, Anna Wiener, Dov Seidman, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, regulation, social contract, Tom Friedman, Trust

Why social media help private citizens want to help solve public problems

May 2, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

A few years ago, during the huge flap among Facebook users about its then new "News Feed," a journalist asked Mark Zuckerberg why it was so important to have that new feature, author/activist Eli Pariser relates in a TED Talk. Zuckerberg responded, "A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." Whether or not Zuckerberg … [Read more...] about Why social media help private citizens want to help solve public problems

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: activism, civic engagement, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media, social problem-solving

Facebook the movie

October 10, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

All the other news this past week kept crowding out the Facebook movie, which I figure many of you have seen by now, maybe with your kids. The film, released last Friday, has done well at the box office, having made $28.7 million by Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, and expected to gross another $12 million to 15 million this weekend. Movie critics really liked it. The film … [Read more...] about Facebook the movie

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Facebook, Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media, social networking, Sorkin, The Social Network movie

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ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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
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Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
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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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