Our history of technopanics
I appreciate the historical context Adam Thierer has just given to the technopanics discussion that needs to continue gaining volume (the discussion not the panic, I mean!). “The children of the 1950s...
View ArticleA new ‘TV Guide’ to children’s ‘television’
For those of us not using search engines to find TV shows on the Web and wishing for a TV Guide of the Web, as Adam Thierer over at TechLiberation.com put it, there is now a TV Guide of the Web:...
View ArticleOSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?
“Youth Safety on a Living Internet,” the title of the just-released report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (OSTWG), is significant. It says a lot about the state of youth Internet...
View Article‘Cognitive surplus’ calls for more media-literacy
The information (and production) overload of the digital era creates more of everything: both high- and low-quality content coming from everybody, amateur to professional. To quote the quoter (policy...
View ArticleA new book & fresh look at online privacy
We may not be fully aware of it yet, but as our media environment is changing – from a top-down (regulated, professionally produced) one to a user-driven, multidirectional, social one – so is our idea...
View ArticleIt’s time to outgrow the ‘kids, these days’ cliche
Every generation, we adults seem to swing between fear of young people and fear for them. Of course now, with the advent of social media, it’s really justified, right? Actually, no, even less so. More...
View ArticleLaw enforcement & social media now working together
This is a significant sign of progress: The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) is working with Facebook on consumer privacy education. We’re still only in the first half of this decade,...
View ArticleFlawed early laws of our new media environment
Before any more laws aimed at protecting young people’s online privacy get passed, I wish lawmakers could spend more time with kids using social media – kids of both sexes and various ages, at least...
View ArticleRemember: The ‘right to be forgotten’ is shared
A lot has been published and broadcast about Internet users’ “right to be forgotten,” long before and since last week’s ruling by a high court in Europe (see the BBC), including the important points...
View ArticleOSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?
Co-chair blogs about the OSTWG's report to Congress, "Youth Safety on a Living Internet," June 4, 2010. The post OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’? appeared first on NetFamilyNews.org.
View Article‘Cognitive surplus’ calls for more media-literacy
The information and production overload of our new media environment makes training in new media literacy more essential than ever. The post ‘Cognitive surplus’ calls for more media-literacy appeared...
View ArticleA new book & fresh look at online privacy
We may not be fully aware of it yet, but as our media environment is changing – from a top-down (regulated, professionally produced) one to a user-driven, multidirectional, social one – so is our idea...
View ArticleIt’s time to outgrow the ‘kids, these days’ cliche
Every generation, we adults seem to swing between fear of young people and fear for them. Of course now, with the advent of social media, it’s really justified, right? Actually, no, even less so. More...
View ArticleLaw enforcement & social media now working together
This is a significant sign of progress: The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) is working with Facebook on consumer privacy education. We’re still only in the first half of this decade,...
View ArticleFlawed early laws of our new media environment
Before any more laws aimed at protecting young people’s online privacy get passed, I wish lawmakers could spend more time with kids using social media – kids of both sexes and various ages, at least...
View ArticleRemember: The ‘right to be forgotten’ is shared
A lot has been published and broadcast about Internet users’ “right to be forgotten,” long before and since last week’s ruling by a high court in Europe (see the BBC), including the important points...
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