From: Seth Young
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Sent: 24 February 2010 17:36
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Palfrey, Gasser, boyd re "Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an
Evolving Media Landscape"
Good afternoon,
The
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Re_Empowering_Parents_Protecting_Children
The response synthesizes current research and data on the media practices of
youth, focusing on three main areas -- 1) Risky Behaviors and Online Safety, 2)
Privacy, Publicity and Reputation, and 3) Information Dissemination,
Youth-Created Content and Quality of Information -- in order to highlight
issues of genuine concern, such as growing participation and literacy gaps,
and, crucially, in order to discuss the positive and creative opportunities
that electronic media provide for young people. In each area, potential policy
responses are discussed.
Today's filing was co-authored by John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and danah boyd,
with help from a terrific group of research assistants and colleagues. It was
developed from the ongoing activities of the
For more information, see:
* FCC NOI 09-94: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-94A1.pdf
* Palfrey, Gasser, boyd response: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Re_Empowering_Parents_Protecting_Children
* Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/digitalnatives/policy
* Digital Natives project: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/digitalnatives
* Internet Safety Technical Task Force: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/isttf
* Digital Youth Project: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
As always, we welcome your feedback. And we look forward to sharing more from
the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative as its work becomes
publicly available.
Seth Young
Communications
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society -- http://cyber.law.harvard.edu -- exploring cyberspace, sharing in its study, and helping pioneer its development