The media have been freaking out about children’s use of technology since at least the days of radio, and it doesn’t make parenting decisions any easier.
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The Online Safety Act intends to put greater responsibility on platforms and content creators themselves for children’s safety.
Teenagers become far less likely to speak to parents about online concerns and turn to their peers instead.
As Canada’s Online Harms Act is being debated, MPs may look to other countries, like Australia, for guidance on protecting youth from online harms.
There’s ever-evolving ways for children and young people to be harmed online. Here’s what kids think about the harms they experience and how to prevent them.
It’s neither practical nor helpful to keep children and teens off the internet in a hyper-connected, digital world.
There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Researcher at the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, The EthicsLab, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Researcher in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Sociology, Western University
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Forensic Psychologist
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PhD Candidate, Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
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Principal Academic in Communications, Bournemouth University