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Net safety’s ‘3 alarmist assumptions’: Researcher

May 22, 2014 By Anne 6 Comments

David Finkelhor

This is news, and not just for the Internet safety field. It's important for policymakers, parents, educators, researchers, healthcare providers and journalists to know about: In the Journal of Child Psychology, sociologist David Finkelhor, one of the US's most prominent experts on child victimization, challenges the "alarmism reflected by so much of the scholarly and journalistic literature" about … [Read more...] about Net safety’s ‘3 alarmist assumptions’: Researcher

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Internet risk research, Internet safety, Lisa Jones, online risk research, Sonia Livingstone, University of New Hampshire, youth online risk

Factors in good policymaking about youth & digital media

March 13, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Kids online at library

Informed citizens sometimes forget that the reason why negative, tragic or just plain-old bad news is news is because it's the exception to the rule. That's why it's newsworthy. And this is true whether we're hearing about airplane crashes or online bullying. Sometimes the news is unspeakably tragic, but it's still the exception, not the rule. It's not an event from which we can extrapolate what … [Read more...] about Factors in good policymaking about youth & digital media

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Internet policy, online risk research, resilience, social media policy, Sonia Livingstone, youth online risk

‘Noodz,’ ‘selfies,’ ‘sexts,’ etc., Part 1: A spectrum of motivations

May 7, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

Despite what we see in news headlines, there is no single term that people who share nude photos use, according to Australian researcher and author Nina Funnell, who has interviewed some 4 dozen 16-to-25-year-olds about it. Especially not "sexting," she said in a talk I got to hear in Sydney this spring (their fall). Using the term tends to alienate young people, she said. And there are many more … [Read more...] about ‘Noodz,’ ‘selfies,’ ‘sexts,’ etc., Part 1: A spectrum of motivations

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, sexting Tagged With: Nina Funnell, online risk research, sexting, social media research, youth online risk

Study on long-neglected factor in Net safety: Resilience

January 22, 2013 By Anne 6 Comments

As a society, we've been talking about youth online risk for years, but we've only just begun to talk about young people's resilience, which is what helps them keep risk from turning into harm. It's important to know, as the authors of an important new report note, that resilience – the ability to deal with negative experiences without being upset by them – doesn't come from avoiding risk, online … [Read more...] about Study on long-neglected factor in Net safety: Resilience

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: e-safety, EU Kids Online, Internet safety, online safety, research, resilience, youth online risk

Declines in 2 online risks for youth: Study

December 16, 2011 By Anne 4 Comments

Good news for online kids on two fronts this week. We're seeing a continuing decline in online sexual solicitations of young people. The widely misrepresented 2000 figure from the Crimes Against Children Research Center was "1 in 5" (more in a minute on the misrepresentation); the 2005 one was "1 in 7" (13%), and the CCRC has just announced that it's now 9% in 2010, which was when the CCRC … [Read more...] about Declines in 2 online risks for youth: Study

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: adult content, CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, Internet safety, online safety, sexual solicitations, youth online risk

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
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
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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