As you may have heard, Facebook is testing a new iOS app called Lifestage, which is designed to enable students to create a visual profile of who they are to share with their school network. It’s unique in that it doesn’t give users the option to post...
By Ali Hill, PhD Relationships are powerful. As human beings, our brains are hardwired for connection. We really need other people, and when some of the most intimate aspects of our relationships are shared digitally, the fallout from the loss of that all-important...
By Larry Magid Sextortion usually involves a perpetrator (typically male) getting hold of a picture of someone (typically female) and threatening to widely share those images unless the victim gives them something they want. And that something is often more images...
By Kerry Gallagher We are in the midst or a revolution in information and we have an opportunity. Collectively, we are building the information repository of the future by posting, remixing, liking, and sharing online. Even this post is contributing to that future....
One of the activities at the U.S. Safer Internet Day celebration at Universal Studios Hollywood on February 9th was for the 300 middle and high school students attending to break into small groups to help resolve some critical questions that have been plaguing...
