online child safety and literacy
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Teenagers’ online safety and literacy
Lee Rainie – Director, Pew Internet ProjectPoint Smart / Click Safe SummitJune 10, 2008
Five hallmarks of the
world of digital natives
Hallmark 1
Teens’ internet
environment is changing and they are becoming
more intense users
2000
73% of teens use internet
~8% with broadband at home
<30% own a cell phone
?? connect to internet wirelessly
= slow and stationary connections
2008
94% of teens use internet
73% with broadband at home
71% own a cell phone
~70% connect to internet wirelessly
= fast and mobile connections
Status update: The internet then and now
Teen use of the internet intensifies
Teen internet users - go online daily
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Hallmark 2
Content creation is integral to teens’ internet experience
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64% of teens
44% of adults
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58% of online teens have created their own profile on a social network site like MySpace or Facebook
(it’s the girls!)---33% of online adults
have such profiles
Content creation
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47% of teens have uploaded photos to the internet
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34% of adult users have done this
Content creation
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39% of online teens share their own creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos
----21% of online adults
have done this
Content creation
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28% of teens have blogs – up from 19% in 2004
(it’s the girls!)
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12% of online adults have a blog
Content creation
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26% of online teens report keeping their own personal webpage
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14% of online adults have their own page
Content creation
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Content creation
26% of online teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations
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11% of online adults have done this
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14% of teens have uploaded videos to the web
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14% of all adult internet users have done this
Content creation
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19% of online young adults have created an avatar that interacts with others online
----6% of all adult internet
users have done this
Content creation
Hallmark 3
Teens’ are using their digital tools to reshape their
communications
patterns
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Teen/Parent Survey on Writing, September-November 2007. Margin of error is ±5%.
16%Send email
23%Send messages through a social networking
site
29%Send instant messages
35%Talk on a landline or home phone
35%Talk on a cell phone
36%Send text messages on cell phone
39%Spend time in person outside of school
All teens (n=700)
% of teens who engage in each activity every day
Daily Social Communication Choices
Hallmark 4
Multi-tasking is a way of life
for teens
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Many live in a state of “continuous partial attention”
– Linda Stone
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Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005
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Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005
Hallmark 5
Teens are facile with technology but many are not yet fully fluent in the new literacies the digital
world requires, especially “self literacy”
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Update old survival wisdom: Be safe
Don’t talk to strangers, especially about sex• Pew Internet findings: 32% of online teens have
been contacted online by a complete stranger.
• Of teens who have been contacted, 23% say they were made scared or uncomfortable by the stranger contact. Overall, 7% of online teens experienced disturbing stranger contact.
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• 4% of youth received aggressive online sexual solicitation where the solicitor tried to make offline contact; 4% faced solicitation of pictures.
-- Crimes Against Children Research Center – Univ. of New Hampshire
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Update old survival wisdom: Be smart
Don’t go into certain virtual neighborhoods• 25% of youth who use the internet regularly had
one or more unwanted exposures to sexual pictures while online in the “past year.”– 73% came during surfing
– 27% came via email or IM-- Crimes Against Children Research Center – Univ. of New Hampshire
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Update old survival wisdom: Be skeptical
Don’t believe everything you read or everything that someone tells you,
especially about themselves
• In the majority of sex crimes against youth, offenders did not deceive the teens about the fact that they were older and were interested in sex. However, the attackers seduced the youth by being understanding, sympathetic and flattering, and by appealing to the teens’ interest in romance, sex and adventure.
-- Crimes Against Children Research Center – Univ. of New Hampshire
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Self literacy: New competency 1
The ability to manage your identity in a way that appropriately takes account of the risks of how online activity can lead to
disclosure of sensitive personal information.
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Beware of online predators, especially information predators!
Don’t overshare because lots of people AND machines will be watching!
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Self literacy: New competency 2
The capacity to give appropriate attention to your online reputation and assign
appropriate weight to the words and images about you that appear online
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How to deal with cyberbullies…
32% of online teens have been targets of annoying and potentially menacing online
activity -- rumors, threats, pictures, disclosing private communications
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Self literacy: New competency 3
The skill to be socially successful in navigating the new boundaries of social
networks and “friendships.”
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Friend is now a verb!
Not everyone friending you can possibly be the truest kind of
FRIEND
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Self literacy: New competency 4
The competence to exercise social intelligence when you can be “present”
anywhere, any time to anyone even when you are not physically there.
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How to have good manners in a world of where multiple audiences can be aware of
you … and where “absent present” and “present absence” are new realities.
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Thank you!
Lee Rainie
Director
Pew Internet & American Life Project
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Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
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