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By: Social Culture

Social Culture — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:10:16 +0000

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By: Social Cultural

Social Cultural — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:06:53 +0000

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By: Katie Bacon

Katie Bacon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:11:38 +0000

Excellent news about the House Lords debate on SNS and eSafeguarding issues. I am very interested in learning what the outcomes were from the debate and what this means for future policy development?

I have been developing, consulting and delivering a SNS digital youth participation outreach in Devon County Council for over 12 months with particular focus on reaching vulnerable groups of young people from across Devon. My colleague and I are in the process of accrediting an OCN course covering issues of eSafeguarding and Identity harm minimisation on SNS.

I have drafted a policy including the following; SNS Risk assessment, SNS child protection, data protection, informed consent, verification of profiles & SNS code of conduct. The objective for 2009 is to embed on line dialogue and feedback between adult decision makers (Children’s Trust, Devon County Council & IYSS) and young people from across Devon.

Below are links to evidence my practice to date:
ukyouthonline.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sns-eparticipation-youth
ukyouthonline.ning.com/profiles/blogs/review-of-sns-induction
fcm.fostering.net/issues/winter-2009/banishing-internet-demons

By: BLOGGING AROUND « Critically Chatting Collective’s Blog

BLOGGING AROUND « Critically Chatting Collective’s Blog — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:02:30 +0000

[...] this month the House of Lords will be spending two and a half hours discussing young people and social networking sites in a debate initiated by Lord Toby Harris. As Shane McCracken has pointed out, a focus on “the [...]

By: Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:00:05 +0000

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By: Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:00:02 +0000

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By: DK

DK — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:31:01 +0000

Let me echo my colleagues comments above – great to see it on the agenda… I’m also an advocate of designing from the actual rather than perceived (a lesson I learned from being the first corporate youth officer for any local government authority) and in working in this area for the past three or so years.

Here is a link to a podcast interview I did over the weekend with one of the members of the US Internet Safety Technical Task Force who were commissioned by the Attorney Generals to produce a report (which Harry has already linked to):

MS Podcast#132 / Rezed Podcast#26 – http://tinyurl.com/auwgws

Lot of lessons to be learned here especially when it comes to the perceived dangers of social networking by us “adults”… good luck with the debate and looking forward to reading the notes.

Peace

DK
MediaSnackers Founder

By: Tim Davies

Tim Davies — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:34:28 +0000

Very glad to see this up for debate – and I look forward to hearing what discussions cover.

I’ve just posted (http://is.gd/ioI2) some reflections from the work I’ve done over the last 12 months about the need to make sure the focus is not on restriction and blunt education (e.g. messages that say ‘don’t do this or that’) but is on building young people’s critical literacy, supporting professionals to work with young people to encourage them to reflect on safe and effective use of new technology – and on taking subtle but important steps to make the social network site environment itself more conducive to encouraging individuals to make sensible informed decisions about the information they share and how far they share it.

Most important of all though in this debate would seem to me to ensure there is a strong appreciation of the different approaches needed at different stages of childhood and adolescence. It’s important that a debate about children and young people doesn’t collapse into a debate just about one or the other.

By: E-Safety. Moving from restrictions & messages to critical questions : Tim’s Blog

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:21:25 +0000

By: Harry Harrold

Harry Harrold — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:07:43 +0000

I’d also hope the debate would be closely informed by the principles and recommendations of the Byron Report.

And perhaps also some American experience, as laid out at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/ and at http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report , might be useful.