UK children’s ChildLine: Read the coverage carefully
An interesting finding from the UK ChildLine’s just-released report: ”For the first time in the charity’s 28-year history, more counselling took place online (59%) than by telephone (41%),” the BBC...
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Whisper’s popularity no longer a secret
It’s being said that the preference pendulum in social media culture is swinging back from transparency (as in Facebook) to anonymity (as in Whisper). And the growing popularity of the Whisper app –...
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‘Internet addiction’: New ‘disorder’ about age-old needs?
Judging by the just-released documentary Web Junkie, about a Chinese “Internet addiction” treatment center, it’s loneliness that’s at the heart of what the Chinese officially call a clinical disorder...
View ArticleTimely for Safer Internet Day: Game-changing insight into Internet risk
One of the milestones of Internet safety was the distinction between risk and harm made by the pan-European researchers of EU Kids Online back in 2011. “Risk must be distinguished from harm,” they...
View ArticleNew global service for getting nudes off the Internet
TakeItDown, a new service to help teens get nudes and other sexting images taken down from the Internet anonymously – powered by NCMEC, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The post...
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