Prof. Sahara Byrne, of the communications department at Cornell, is the Berkman Center‘s lunch series speaker today. Prof. Byrne studies responses to Internet safety techniques. She’s interested in the “recipes for disaster,” such as when parents love a given safety technique and kids hate it. She’s a believer in psychological reactance theory: that when kids … Read more
NPR’s ToTN ran a piece yesterday on Online Safety that references lots of good data and the Internet Safety Technical Task Force report. Guests included three experts on this topic: Lenore Skenazy (author of Free Range Kids), Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, and Janis Wolak (UNH). It is rare that one hears such a nuanced … Read more
The MacArthur Foundation’s Series on New Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, includes a book called Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (2008); open access version here. I opened this book first when I was writing a chapter on Innovators, for Born Digital, a book I’m co-writing with Urs Gasser. I had reason … Read more