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Latest on cellphone use of Americans 13+

September 16, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

More than 230 million Americans aged 13 and up used mobile phones this past July, according to comScore's just-released figures, a little less than one-quarter of those phones were smartphones (basically media and app phones). Here's comScore's breakdown of phone-based activities: Two-thirds sent text messages; one-third used their phone's Web browser; 31.4% downloaded apps; 22.3% played games, … [Read more...] about Latest on cellphone use of Americans 13+

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: cellphones, mobile phones, social media research

Facebook adds ‘Places’: Cellphone location service

August 19, 2010 By Anne 3 Comments

I'm sure you've heard about Foursquare, a game and geolocation app that lets people "check in" to their favorite spots virtually when they're walking in physically. Well, Facebook now has a geolocation app like that called "Places," so users can use their cellphones to let their FB friends know where they are (only in the US at this point). In addition to checking in, FB users can "see who else … [Read more...] about Facebook adds ‘Places’: Cellphone location service

Filed Under: geolocation, mobile, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: cellphones, check-ins, Facebook Places, Foursquare, geolocation, Gowalla, mobile phones, social mapping

Video sex chat on phones

August 6, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Porn operators have long been early adopters of new technology. Now it's video on smartphones. What's newly concerning about it is that video phone-based porn is getting more personal, more one-to-one, more like Webcam conversations. "Video sex chat," as it's described in this Washington Post piece, stands to make the adult content industry "big money," according to the article and is already … [Read more...] about Video sex chat on phones

Filed Under: mobile, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: adult content, cellphones, mobile phones, pornography, sex chat, videochat

Cellphone cos. & cyberbullying

November 25, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

It was a microcosm of the dynamic between government and industry where cyberbullying's concerned. The industry - in this case mobile-phone companies in Ireland - saying there is no technology that can stop phone-based bullying and lawmakers saying, "You could do more." Both are right, really. Bullying is a reality of growing up that long predates communications technology, but there's always … [Read more...] about Cellphone cos. & cyberbullying

Filed Under: cyberbullying, mobile, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: cellphones, cyberbullying, mobile phones

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
U.S. schools delete cyberbullying

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
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
Future of Privacy Forum
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
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
National Association for Media Literacy Education
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
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"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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