Teen Online Safety Tips and Research
Posted by Mrs. Hamrick on January 20, 2009
- Parents’ Guide to Teen Social Networking Chat Transcript: Does your child have a Facebook or MySpace account? Does he or she text constantly? These methods of social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the primary ways our kids are communicating with one another these days. With all the talk of online predators and cyberbullying, how can parents help kids keep the Internet a constructive and safe place? Read a recent chat session with Anne Collier and Larry Magid, co-authors of MySpace Unraveled: A Parents’ Guide to Teen Social Networking and co-directors of ConnectSafely, regarding any issues or concerns pertaining to your teenagers and their online social lives.
- Internet Safety Technical Task Force The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released the final report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, a group of 29 leading Internet businesses, non-profit organizations, academics, and technology companies that joined together for a year-long investigation of tools and technologies to create a safer environment on the Internet for youth. The Task Force was created in February 2008 in accordance with the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced in January 2008 by the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking and MySpace. The report was delivered to the 52 Attorneys General in December, 2008. To read the final report, including the executive summary, as well as reaction statements from members of the Task Force, visit: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/
- Internet Evolution: Future of the Internet III Press release for a December 2008 “survey of experts by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020.” Includes summary and full text of the report, which found that experts predict the “mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet … in 2020.” Also includes links to previous “Future of the Internet” and other related reports.http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp
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Free Online Book – Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cyber mobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Longstanding notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance among privacy, free speech, and anonymity, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free. http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Future-of-Reputation/text.htm
