by Larry Magid Several years ago, my site SafeKids.com, developed a Family Contract for Online Safety and every few months I make sure it’s up-to-date. The idea of a contract, or series of pledges, is to get everyone in the family on board as to what it means...
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...
A view from the launch of what Lady Gaga aims to be a movement to empower youth and fuel kindness By Anne Collier Surrounded by some of the best thinkers and researchers in the bullying prevention, social media, and youth empowerment fields, Wednesday (2/29) I got to...
Talk by Larry Magid, co-director of ConnectSafely.org at Russia’s Safer Internet Day – Moscow, February 6, 2012 It is a great pleasure to be here. Even though I grew up during the cold war, I have always been an admirer of the Russian people and the many...
