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Global mobiles: Research

November 9, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

Almost half (46%) of the world's people now have mobile phones, according to The Economist, citing research from GSMA, the international mobile carrier association. That's 3.2 billion people who "have at least one active mobile phone" – compared to the mere 1-2.45 billion who use the Internet (the high end is from the ITU via Wikipedia). But they're not two separate figures, since many people in … [Read more...] about Global mobiles: Research

Filed Under: mobile, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: global usage data, media research, mobile access, mobile phones

Fresh freeze frame of Pinterest

October 11, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

The all-time most popular "pin" on the social site Pinterest is a recipe for cheesy garlic bread, TheNextWeb reports, "with over 91,000 pins and 12,000 likes." Thought you'd be interested in a fresh snapshot of the site that reached 10 million users faster than any other on the Web ever, according to WebDesignSolutions.com. The snapshot is from Repinly, one of those third-party entities that latch … [Read more...] about Fresh freeze frame of Pinterest

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: collecting, media research, Pinterest, scrapbooking, Social Media

Takeaways from SxSW, Part 1: The Brazilian Dream

October 8, 2012 By Anne 3 Comments

[This article was originally published March 18, 2012, then my service’s server crashed, losing months of data. So reposting 10/8/12.] In addition to the panel mentioned in my previous post about Hope North and the one I participated in, "Reaching Teens on the Digital Streets," here – in two parts – are some takeaways from two areas I focused on at South by Southwest (SxSW) last week: featured … [Read more...] about Takeaways from SxSW, Part 1: The Brazilian Dream

Filed Under: Research, Social Media Tagged With: Box 1824, Brazil, Carla Albertuni, civic engagement, digital citizenship, global citizenship, media research, Social Media, social media research, SXSW, youth

Net use worldwide: Update

November 17, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

In terms of national-level Internet penetration, the US is fifth in the world (at 78.2% of our population), after the UK (82%), South Korea (80.9%), Germany (79.9%), and Japan (78.4%), according to InternetWorldStats.com's Top 20 countries list for number of Net users (as 6/30/11). Purely in terms of Internet users, the Top 5 are China (with an estimated 485 million), the US (245m), India (100m), … [Read more...] about Net use worldwide: Update

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: international, Internet penetration, internet research, media research

Kids lying to Facebook, not their parents: Study

November 1, 2011 By Anne 9 Comments

A whole lot of us know that 13 is Facebook's minimum age, but fewer of us know that the reason for that is not kids' online safety but a law called the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act designed to protect the privacy of kids' data – a law administered by the Federal Trade Commission, which right now has it under review. COPPA requires parental consent before sites can collect any data from … [Read more...] about Kids lying to Facebook, not their parents: Study

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Research, Social Media Tagged With: COPPA, danah boyd, data protection, Eszter Hargitai, Facebook, Jason Schultz, John Palfrey, lie about their age, media research, online privacy, Social Media, social media research, U13s

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
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Center for Democracy & Technology
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Childnet International
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ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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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