By Anne Collier Are iPads bad for little children? I ask that metaphorically, for two reasons: because iPads represent a host of tablets and other touchscreen devices children seem to play with joyfully and intuitively, and because that attraction makes it extra hard...
Although still not widely recognized in the US, Safer Internet Day is nevertheless “official” now, with participation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Education (DOE). Though marked by Net users in schools, nonprofit...
The FTC’s aim is to sync a 1998 law up with current media and technology but it won’t be effective until COPPA’s also synced up with the regulatory conditions they create. By Anne Collier The US Federal Trade Commission’s revisions to the COPPA Rule announced...
by Anne Collier I suspect two reasons why people (mistakenly) think cyberbullying is on the rise are… 1. Its increased visibility: Cruel words and behaviors are unprecedentedly public now, because of the social Web, so that’s what’s actually growing – the...
By Anne Collier While the US mental healthcare field is considering whether “Internet addiction” is a disorder, it doesn’t seem to understand how vast and diverse Internet use is. When a CNN reporter asks psychiatry professor Charles O’Brien at...
