Oct 16, 2014
By Anne Collier Don’t believe everything you read about “screentime.” It’s rarely helpful – especially if presented as an undifferentiated mass of digital activity that just needs to be limited. That blunt-instrument approach is not helpful to...
Oct 8, 2014
By Anne Collier There are all kinds of reasons why “bullying” and “cyberbullying” can’t be applied to just any kind of mean behavior that happens in physical or digital spaces. Professor and author Justin Patchin goes into a bunch of them...
Oct 2, 2014
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month — as good a time as any to remind people that their cyber security hygiene doesn’t just affect them, but everyone around them. And in the globally connected world we live in, that literally is everyone. Your cyber...
Oct 1, 2014
By Anne Collier It’s October already, so National Cyber Security Awareness Month (#NCSAM2014) and National Bullying Prevention Month have arrived – offering a good reminder that, in today’s increasingly user-driven digital environments, digital safety and...
Sep 23, 2014
By Anne Collier It’s now clear that, where Americans’ use of digital media is concerned, mobile rules. “The days of desktop dominance are over,” declares top digital market researcher comScore in its latest mobile app report. Smartphones and...
Sep 16, 2014
By Anne Collier I never do movie reviews. But Chef is totally on-topic for NetFamilyNews, and not because some families have foodies in them. It’s because there’s a scene that illustrates better than anything I’ve seen on film how sweetly and...
