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Views of Net users young & old: Studies

March 20, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Lots of international (individual and family) Internet-user data has been released via various studies this past week, courtesy of Symantec, Google, Yahoo, and Skype. Symantec’s Norton Online Living Report was very family-oriented, having gathered the views of 9,000 adults and young people in 12 countries! Some interesting findings NetworkWorld led with were that “one in five children admitted getting caught doing something their parents didn’t approve of,” and parents are using a variety of means to keep better tabs on their kids online activities. “The UK, for example, has the highest usage of software to control Internet use,” e.g., filtering or online curfews. A few other interesting findings: “1 in 5 online youth are more willing to communicate with their family about touchy subjects online than on the phone or in person” (great idea – let a text message about your concern kick off a calm parent-child conversation); “89% of online adults and 90% of online children agree that the benefits of using the Internet outweigh the risks,” but 60% of parents feel kids spend too much time online. In another just-released sponsored by Google, Yahoo, and Skype, 90% of users in France, Germany, and the UK expect their Internet service providers to offer open and unrestricted access to the Web, Reuters reports. And the New York Times reports that a survey conducted in the US by TRUSTe, the privacy nonprofit, found that “more than 90% of respondents called online privacy a ‘really’ or ‘somewhat’ important issue.” But in a separate story, the Times asks the good question, “When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?”

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Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Social Media Tagged With: Google, Norton Online Living, Skype, Symantec, Yahoo

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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
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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