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Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis

October 13, 2023 By Anne 1 Comment

UN photo of kids in Gaza eating bread provided by World Food Program

Sometimes we parents feel so helpless when our children come to us hurting as much as us when they see something awful happening in the world. In her email letter to our community, my friend, colleague and fellow parent Michelle Lipkin wrote, when her 19-year-old daughter asked her to explain what's going on, "I tried my best, but I know my response was inadequate. At times like these, I always … [Read more...] about Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Gaza, humanitarian crisis, Israel, Israelis, media literacy, mental health, Michelle Lipkin, NAMLE, Palestinians, Richard Graham, Sonia Livingstone, UN Relief and Works Agency, UNICEF

Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock

June 16, 2023 By Anne 7 Comments

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advises that "we are experiencing a youth mental health crisis." Based on the data, there's no question about that. Where there is a question is whether tech and media are the cause. Some scholars simply assert they are (see the sidebar below), but neither the surgeon general nor the American Psychological Association asserts that, and the APA just wrote in its … [Read more...] about Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CDC, David French, EU Kids Online, Ezra Klein, Frances Haugen, Ine Beyens, Jean Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Judson Brewer, Kaitlyn Tiffany, Lisa Damour, Patti Valkenburg, Project AWeSome, Sonia Livingstone, Vivek Murthy

Lawmakers, controlling and banning kids doesn’t help

May 17, 2023 By Anne 4 Comments

The "control paradigm" around child online safety, which researchers on three continents have been calling out for at least five years, is in full bloom now. The term comes from a 2019 book by four Australian scholars about how control and surveillance have come to define digital safety, inclusion and citizenship. (Does that give you pause – especially around the citizenship piece?) Among … [Read more...] about Lawmakers, controlling and banning kids doesn’t help

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, Andy Phippen, control paradigm, David Stein, Ian Rivers, Lucas Walsh, Maggie Brennan, Michael Adorjan, Nathan Fisk, Philippa Collin, Rosalyn Black, Rosemary Ricciardelli, screen time, screentime, Sonia Livingstone

Game-changer: Child rights-by-design

April 11, 2023 By Anne Leave a Comment

Even though the United States is the only country on the planet that hasn't ratified the nearly 34-year-old UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, US-based companies that serve kids and teens around the world no longer have any excuse not to uphold their rights. Why is that the case? Not "only" because young people's lives are now "digital by default," as psychology professor Sonia … [Read more...] about Game-changer: Child rights-by-design

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Research, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Digital Future Commission, Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC

Datafied Childhoods the book

April 12, 2022 By Anne 2 Comments

A grabbier headline for this post might be “Screens are watching us back,” but that would be like so many scary news headlines parents are subjected to. More importantly, it wouldn’t do justice to all that this important new book – Datafied Childhoods, by Profs. Giovanna Mascheroni in Italy and Andra Siibak in Estonia – offers us. It provides…. Preparation not only for handling the new tech … [Read more...] about Datafied Childhoods the book

Filed Under: Parenting, Privacy, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: AI, Alex Feerst, Alicia Blum-Ross, Amanda Third, Andra Siibak, AR, Charlotte, data, datafication, decentralized Web, Divine Maloney, Faisal Galaria, Giovanna Mascheroni, Janet Haven, Jill Walker Rettberg, Leslie Haddon, mediatization, metaverse, MR, Nathan Fisk, Neil Selwyn, Privacy, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Lordan, Veronica Barassi, VR, Web3, Willner, XR

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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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