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BeReal & being real about safety & privacy

October 10, 2022 By Anne 1 Comment

Seventeen magazine recently asked me if the BeReal app is safe for teens. Here’s their article about that, which is great but of course lots got left on the cutting floor. Here’s my full take: The way this Paris-based app is designed, it’s actually safer than a lot of other apps because it’s made for sharing just among friends. Accounts are private by default. People have to ask permission to … [Read more...] about BeReal & being real about safety & privacy

Filed Under: apps, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: app, BeReal, online privacy, online safety, performance fatigue, self-presentation fatigue, Snapchat, Social Media

The latest on US teens’ social media use

August 12, 2022 By Anne Leave a Comment

… [Read more...] about The latest on US teens’ social media use

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Emily Vogels, Facebook, Instagram, Navid Massarat, Pew Research Center, reddit, Risa Gelles-Watnick, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube

An Oversight Board & what’s actually, urgently, needed

June 4, 2020 By Anne 1 Comment

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Below you'll find background and context to this pivotal point for social media. For a more prescriptive view, click to "Social media's turning point: 5 steps needed now, no turning back."  Suddenly things that looked like important, almost radical (potential) fixes a few months ago now seem like “band-aids” or symptom treatments. Suddenly we need a great deal more. By “we,” I mean us, our … [Read more...] about An Oversight Board & what’s actually, urgently, needed

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Social Media Tagged With: Barry Schnitt, Conan O'Brien, Facebook, George Floyd, Oversight Board, Peter Pomerantsev, Philip Howard, Po Chi Wu, Samantha Bradshaw, Sheila Jasanoff, Snapchat, twitter, Van Jones, Yascha Mounk, YouTube, Zack Beauchamp

How teens’ social media use changing: New Pew study

June 1, 2018 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Parents of teens probably knew this already, but the Pew Research Center just confirmed it for everybody: YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are US 13-17 year-olds' top social media picks now – at 85%, 72% and 69%, respectively. That's according to Pew's just-released "Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018." [The percentages add up to more than 100% because, as is well known, teens use multiple … [Read more...] about How teens’ social media use changing: New Pew study

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Facebook, Instagram, Pew Research Center, reddit, Snapchat, Tumblr, twitter, YouTube

The new non-fake news & Snapchat

December 6, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Last week I wrote about fake news, this week about its opposite. This is very real news, as captured by bystanders on the spot – curated and given app-wide exposure by an app. This is quite likely to be how our children will get a lot of their news going forward, so I want to be sure you don't miss what was at the bottom of New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo's important article about … [Read more...] about The new non-fake news & Snapchat

Filed Under: apps, Literacy & Citizenship, media shift, Social Media Tagged With: fake news, Farhad Manjoo, Live Stories, media literacy, Snapchat

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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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