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Net-related ‘juvenoia,’ Part 2: So why are we afraid?

April 7, 2011 By Anne 3 Comments

Last week I wrote about why we don't need to be so afraid (of the Net where our kids are concerned); this week why we are. I've been asking myself that for more than a decade, and I have my theories, but watching David Finkelhor's talk "The Internet, Youth Deviance & the Problem of Juvenoia" was a breakthrough for me. See if it is for you.... Here's how Dr. Finkelhor, who has studied child … [Read more...] about Net-related ‘juvenoia,’ Part 2: So why are we afraid?

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: David Finkelhor, Internet fear, juvenoia, online safety research, Parenting, parents, predator panic, Technopanic, youth risk research

‘Juvenoia,’ Part 1: Why Internet fear is overrated

March 30, 2011 By Anne 33 Comments

Referred to variously as technopanic, predator panic, cyberbullying panic, etc., a lot of fear and anxiety has developed around the intersection of youth and the Internet. Very interestingly, last fall David Finkelhor – director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC) and lead author of the US's first national study on youth risk online in 2000 – used … [Read more...] about ‘Juvenoia,’ Part 1: Why Internet fear is overrated

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, juvenoia, predator panic, youth online risk

A film I *hope* won’t have much impact

March 17, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Brace yourselves, people. "Trust" is coming to a theater near you. As the first comment under the trailer in YouTube put it, "To Catch a Predator The Movie?" I've only seen the trailer of David Schwimmer's film, but I've been watching the blogosphere about it since last fall, frankly in a little bit of denial, because it worries me greatly. I didn't even want to draw to it the teeny bit of … [Read more...] about A film I *hope* won’t have much impact

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: Online Safety 3.0, predator panic, Trust

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NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
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Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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
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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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