…ators do as well, that kids have got to have the experience and, fall over online, make some mistakes online, pick themselves up and figure it out themselves online. All those things that we understand in the playground, they’ve got to happen online, but it’s too scary. In Global Kids Online where we’ve gone beyond Europe, and we’re really trying to focus on doing research in low-income countries, there are just so many other factors. It’s really…

…hich extreme risks are embedded. It also more explicitly acknowledges that online safety issues play out across both online and offline settings. (p. 5) The Research In partnering with Western Sydney University, we found common ground with a team equally valuing of genuine youth participation. Led by Professor Amanda Third, Young and Resilient researchers engaged a cohort of 12-17 year-olds in six online creative and participatory workshops, the r…

…oices that they make, why they do things. You know what they’re able to do online and what they’re not able to do online, you know, to really understand the why behind the numbers Jordan: So what do you understand so far? Amanda: Oh, Jordan, you like to ask a big question, don’t you? Well, look, we’ve developed a bunch of methods that enable us to, I guess talk with children in a deep way at scale. We call this distributed data generation. And thi…

…people. You still hear it with people saying everyone wants to be like the Instagram stars, and Instagram’s so fake. And of course, a lot of research shows that people online are not fakers, that actually it’s a much better representation of who they are. Some things I just wanted to mention: if you really look into the theory of psychoanalysis or in psychology, they talk about something called persona, which is usually defined as something betwee…

…migrant parents rely on their children to search for important information online, it is unknown: (1) how children use their language and digital literacy skills to search and make sense of information online, and (2) how children and parents work together together to find answers to questions that impact the family well-being. To answer these questions, we focused on lower-SES Latino families with ELL immigrant parents for three reasons. First, L…

…y also tend to receive less supervision, support, and scaffolding in their online activities and report more spillover of negative online experiences. The lack of monitoring and support is important because we also find that these young people spend far more time online—ranging from 1.5 to 3 hours more per day than their peers across studies. Parents shouldn’t (and in many cases cannot) shoulder the burden of ensuring digital spaces are healthy an…

…to understand the educational content in videos that young children watch online. Claire received her PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.     Video Image Sources ABC Sounds and Words (Learn Alphabet Letter Sounds and Words) [Video], by English Learning Fun Station, 2021, November 22, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXEg1_OEF4). CC BY 3.0. Learn Shapes in the Jungle | Pinkfong Shape Songs | 15-Minute Learning Wi…

…at young people are actively seeking support for mental health information online, and that they are using online tools to elicit social and emotional support. On the other hand, online and offline vulnerabilities are interrelated. Negative online experiences such as negative comparisons or harassment are stratified by gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and race, and are tied to experiences of poverty, instability, and marginalization. This mirro…

…ghts acts of play such as Zoom hide-and-seek or tag. A vision of free play online necessarily involves identifying the features of the online world that support or, too often, routinely intrude on or jeopardize the possibility of free play. The authors of Playful by Design are clear that play online, just like play offline, can and probably should be a mixed economy – the specter of play as a narrow range of pre-determined commercially driven outc…

…on and communication technologies for social and opposition movements; and online impression management. Pearce also holds an affiliation with the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies.   Jason Yip is an assistant professor at the Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research examines how technologies can…