What are parents doing to protect teens online?
Recent headlines about the discovery and removal of 29,000 registered sex offenders on MySpace have added fuel to the fiery debate about the safety of online social networks.
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Recent headlines about the discovery and removal of 29,000 registered sex offenders on MySpace have added fuel to the fiery debate about the safety of online social networks.
A new issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication was recently published online, with articles on topics ranging from Facebook to online fantasy sports.
A recent Minnesota Public Radio show on social networking sites and teens should be of special interest to parents, educators, researchers and anyone interested in the way digital communication is shaping the lives of young people.
Loved ones not only influence your choice of school, car, or housing — they might influence your choices about smoking, exercise, and food, even if they live hundreds of miles away.
About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults.
The main point of the recent congressional briefing panel was to stop the misinformation and obfuscation around the issue of online child victimization, and to focus on the facts and observations that had emerged from our collective research.
Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
The Project’s formal testimony submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Telecommunications Subcommittee for the Hearing on social networking websites and the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006.
New analysis of our data & others indicates that younger people are more likely to take action to prevent identity fraud & spyware.
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