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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

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

6 takeaways from 20 years of Net safety: Part 1

July 18, 2017 By Anne 5 Comments

safety pins for Net safety

I usually write about other people's work – especially that of the researchers I've followed through the years. But now that I've just passed the 20-year mark in writing about youth and digital media (yikes!), I thought I'd share with you my own top takeaways as a participant observer of Internet safety's early years (1997-now). Here's Part 1 (Part 2 on this page): 1. A generalization about … [Read more...] about 6 takeaways from 20 years of Net safety: Part 1

Filed Under: Parenting, Privacy, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CCRC, danah boyd, David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Jens Qvortrup, Lisa Jones, Michael Rich, screen time

Top takeaways from US’s top Net-safety conference

November 11, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Each November Internet-safety organizations, tech and media companies, researchers, authors and policymakers gather in Washington, D.C., to get an update on young people's social media practices, safety and privacy at "FOSI," the nickname for the Family Online Safety Institute's annual conference. That update just happened, and here are my top takeaways. Internet safety not really about the … [Read more...] about Top takeaways from US’s top Net-safety conference

Filed Under: Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: Berkman Center, Brian O'Neill, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Charlie Kuhn, Dave Miles, Elizabeth Englander, EU Kids Online, FOSI, Marti Weston, Mary Alford, Michael Rich, Richard Graham, Rosalind Wiseman, Urs Gasser

Meaty perspective on sexting

June 26, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Teens sharing nude or provocative photos is not brand-new, says Dr. Richard Chalfen at the Center for Media and Child Health, and there are "at least 4 kinds of sub-cultures crucial to understanding the 'sexting' phenomenon"; "media culture," "digital culture," "intense visual culture," and "adolescent culture." Chalfen explains each one in "Teen Culture," the first of a very digestible three-part … [Read more...] about Meaty perspective on sexting

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, sexting Tagged With: Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, ISTTF, media culture, mediatrician, Michael Rich, Richard Chalfen

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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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