Tag: Digital Responsibility
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Cyberbullying isn’t only intrademographic
TR has a story of an adult that got involved in bullying a child. I’m sure it’s not the first time that a parent has put their nose into a child’s affairs, but where as in the past it might have only been a parent being an accessory (which adult would be able to really…
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Cox surveys teens on technology
Cox Communications has released it’s own survey (PDF) on teens and online safety in partnership with National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It found that generally teens in the US are well connected with their own email address and cell phone and spend a substantial amount of time online via one device or another.…
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Stay safe online – Access is a right, so is free speech
Some interesting articles came across my screen this morning while I was working on some podcasts. The first was a story from RRW that Trent Reznor is kinda quitting Twitter along with other celebrities who are also jumping off the Social Networking bandwagon. The second was from the Times, on how Les sages have ripped…
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Sexting vs “Spin the Bottle”
It seems that there is quite a bit of coverage in the news media about a paper being presented Peter Cummings at the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that sexting is no worse than the old fashion spin the bottle. Cummings says: Technology does change things, and there can be very serious…
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Cyberbullying on the rise in Canada
There are few ‘net related studies for Canada, so when they come out it is usually a good thing. Not to say that this is bad, but the news certainly is. Microsoft and Youthography have released a survey that suggest that cyberbullying is on the rise in Canada. Along with the bullying stats, they found:…