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Net use: How young Australians line up with kids in 25 other countries

March 29, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Australian young people are highly connected people, on the whole. Part of the reason, probably, is that they're such mobile users. They're "disproportionately likely" to be online with a smartphone or other handheld device, according to the AU Kids Online report. "Whereas 46% of Australian [9-to-16-year-olds] say they access the Internet via a smart handheld device other than a basic mobile … [Read more...] about Net use: How young Australians line up with kids in 25 other countries

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: AU Kids Online, EU Kids Online, social media research, youth online risk research

Online risk in kids’ own words: A research milestone

February 14, 2013 By Anne 5 Comments

Up until now, the vast majority of studies about youth online risk have presented kid respondents with risks pre-determined by adults – for example, "the four main risks on the public policy agenda," as the authors of a new report from EU Kids Online put it. Rarely do surveys of and about children ask the kids about risk from their own perspective.* So this is news: With its new report "In … [Read more...] about Online risk in kids’ own words: A research milestone

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: EU Kids Online, In Their Own Words, Internet safety, youth online risk research

Important granularity on Net risk for teens: Study

January 17, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

An article in the medical journal Pediatrics this month makes significant additions to what we know about youth risk online in two areas: parenting and risk factors for older teen girls (the sample was girls 14-17). The authors of "Association of Maltreatment With High-Risk Internet Behaviors and Offline Encounters" pointed to what we already know: that "95% of American adolescents have Internet … [Read more...] about Important granularity on Net risk for teens: Study

Filed Under: adolescent development, Research, Risk & Safety, teens, Youth Tagged With: at-risk youth, Levels of Prevention, medical research, Pediatrics, public health, youth online risk research

Individual & social ’embodiment’ online: Key eating-disorders study

September 6, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

"Eating disorders affect between 1 and 4 percent of young adult women" and are on the increase, diagnoses having "risen more than 50% since the 1970s," according to the authors of "Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online." But, before this important study, rare coverage in the news media did little besides increase speculation that these communities are … [Read more...] about Individual & social ’embodiment’ online: Key eating-disorders study

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: aggression, anorexia, body image, bulimia, C.J. Pascoe, eating disorders, embodiment, identity formation, Natalie Boero, online community, pro-ana, social media research, youth online risk research

Bullying still > cyberbullying, but most kids do neither

August 28, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

Researchers keep coming up with different numbers, but what doesn't change is that… Most kids do not engage in bullying or cyberbullying There's considerable overlap between online and offline aggression among kids who do Bullying is not on the rise, but there's more of it going on than cyberbullying The prevalence of cyberbullying has been widely overstated. "Reports of a … [Read more...] about Bullying still > cyberbullying, but most kids do neither

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Dan Olweus, Justin Patchin, Sameer Hinduja, youth online risk research

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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
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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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