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For kids’ sake, don’t ‘black box’ social media

June 5, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

For our children's sake, it's more important than ever that we not "black box" our media, whether as researchers or as parents and educators. An essay from psychologist and media professor Sonia Livingstone in the new scholarly journal Social Media + Society got me thinking about this. Dr. Livingstone observes that scholars in disciplines other than media and communications are doing that … [Read more...] about For kids’ sake, don’t ‘black box’ social media

Filed Under: empathy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet, danah boyd, Henry Jenkins, Internet safety, ISTTF, John Seely Brown, online safety, OSTWG, Pew Research, Sonia Livingstone

At the IGF: Youth participation = greater youth e-safety

September 2, 2014 By Anne 7 Comments

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One of the best things about participating in the Internet Governance Forum is seeing the growing youth participation in sessions about their online protection. And one of the best things I've heard so far, after just 1.5 days of the IGF here in Istanbul this week came from Danish 15-year-old Olivia in a session about "Child Online Protection" where there was much discussion about technical, legal … [Read more...] about At the IGF: Youth participation = greater youth e-safety

Filed Under: childrens rights, Internet safety education, Online Safety 3.0, participatory culture, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: #IGF2014, Budapest IGF, e-safety, Internet safety, online safety, UNCRC, youth participation

Proposed ‘rightful’ framework for Internet safety

July 18, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

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Internet safety is a basic right of Internet users. But it's not the only one. There are other fundamental rights that Net users of all ages have, and I propose that Internet safety will actually serve all Internet users better – and have much more relevance to the younger ones in our homes and schools – when we put it in context, in a framework of online rights. It's a framework for all users' … [Read more...] about Proposed ‘rightful’ framework for Internet safety

Filed Under: childrens rights, Internet safety education, Law & Policy, Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Brian O'Neill, Internet safety, ISE, online safety, Sonia Livingstone, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC

Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

March 21, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Before releasing its report on online conflict, MediaSmarts presented a much broader picture of young Canadians' experiences in social media: "Life Online." This is important context for any discussion about cyberbullying and other negative aspects of digitally informed life, whether we're setting policy at the household, school or national levels. "There are a lot of assumptions out there … [Read more...] about Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

Filed Under: apps, gaming, kids, mobile, Parenting, Social Media, students, teens, tweens, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Internet safety, kids, MediaSmarts.ca, online lives, online safety, Parenting, Social Media, teens, Valerie Steeves, youth

Whisper’s popularity no longer a secret

January 27, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

It's being said that the preference pendulum in social media culture is swinging back from transparency (as in Facebook) to anonymity (as in Whisper). And the growing popularity of the Whisper app – where users' posts are Internet meme-style photos overlaid with text (the app makes posting easy by offering up photos it "thinks" match your text, and you get to pick one). People can respond by … [Read more...] about Whisper’s popularity no longer a secret

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: anonymity, ask.fm, Internet safety, online safety, Snapchat, Social Media, Whisper

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

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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