This article overviews a UNICEF report (72 page PDF) on building resilience in children to help them use social media safely (which, probably, is the only effective approach in the long term). The focus is on the use of online media by young people in east Asia, and there's quite a lot of background on what they're using and what they're doing, as well as a discussion of data privacy. The report also includes a good discussion of potential risks and harms, especially those specific to the region. There are four major recommendations:
- Improve support for digital parenting, and parenting in a digital age
- Foster online and offline resilience in children
- Ensure that messaging and responses by teachers and adults are based on evidence of patterns of use, and what works
- Technology companies should make profiles private by default, change default options for new contacts to 'friends of friends', and block photos from being sent by people outside contact lists.
Today: 0 Total: 18 [Direct link] [Share]
