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Various fresh findings on Facebook use

June 17, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

There used to be two bodies of research most relevant to kids online: social-media research and youth-online-risk research (as co-chair of an online-safety task force last year, I tried to bring more of the former into the discussion). But that binary is fading fast, as it should; since the Internet mirrors virtually all of human life, what's happening on it should be looked at by researchers in … [Read more...] about Various fresh findings on Facebook use

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Research Tagged With: academic performance, Facebook, living Internet, online privacy, OSTWG, Pew Internet, social media research, social networking

Great reporting on OSTWG

June 8, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

I have been following online safety news for more than a dozen years and have rarely seen a reporter get it so right. Check out eSchool News on the Net-safety report we delivered to Congress on Friday: "Youth Safety on a Living Internet: Report of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group." Managing editor Laura Devaney nailed it. I think it's pretty unusual for somebody so involved in a … [Read more...] about Great reporting on OSTWG

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: eSchoolNews, OSTWG

OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?

June 7, 2010 By Anne 21 Comments

"Youth Safety on a Living Internet," the title of the just-released report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (OSTWG), is significant. It says a lot about the state of youth Internet safety because it says a lot about the state of the Internet now. This is not just technology or even "content" we're talking about, as we all know. It's behavior, or sociality, every bit as much as … [Read more...] about OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Adam Thierer, CDT, Emma Llanso, Hemanshu Nigam, Justin Patchin, Larry Magid, living Internet, Marian Merritt, NTIA, OSTWG, Youth Safety on a Living Internet

Net-safety task force update

October 2, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

The Online Safety & Technology Working Group, the first such national-level task force of the Obama administration, is well into the 12 months' work the law that formed it asked us to do (here's the text of the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act signed into law last fall). ConnectSafely.org co-director Larry Magid, who leads the subcommittee about online-safety education, just published a … [Read more...] about Net-safety task force update

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Law & Policy, Risk & Safety Tagged With: NTIA, Online Safety and Technology Working Group, OSTWG

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SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
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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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