Tag Archives: myspace

Ressources for Parents and Teachers (ISL Talks on Social Networking)

Posted on 17.06.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Quelques liens, points de départ pour mes deux conférences plus tard dans la journée (parents et enseignants, au sujet des adolescents et des réseaux sociaux comme Facebook).[en]I’m giving two talks today at the ISL, one for teachers and another for … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged bebo, Digital Youth, facebook, information, Links, myspace, Online Culture, parents, prevention, resources, school, skyrock, social networking, social networks, Social Software, switzerland, talk, teachers, teenagers, teens | Leave a comment

Reading the Ofcon Report on Social Networking: Stats, Stranger Danger, Perceived Risk

Posted on 05.04.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Le Daily Mail remet ça aujourd’hui, abasourdi de découvrir que les adolescents rencontrent “offline” des étrangers d’internet. Il va donc falloir que j’écrive le fameux billet auquel j’ai fait allusion dernièrement, mais avant cela, je suis en train de lire … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged bebo, children, Citations, criticism, Culture, daily mail, danger, digital youth, Digital Youth, facebook, fear, internet, Media, myspace, ofcon, offline, online, Online Culture, predators, Press, Psychology / Sociology, report, Research, risk, security, social networking, Social Software, stranger danger, Thinking | Leave a comment

MySpace supprime les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels”

Posted on 27.07.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Il y a quelques jours, on a attiré mon attention sur cet article de la BBC, qui rapporte que le site MySpace (une sorte de super-Skyblog d’origine américaine) a supprimé de son site les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels” (“sex … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Media, My corner of the world | Tagged adolescents, Citations, Digital Youth, enfants, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, médias, myspace, Online Culture, paranoia, pédophiles, prédateurs, predators, prevention, réaction, risque, securité, security, suisse romande, Wanted | 4 Comments

Parents, Teenagers, Internet, Predators, Fear…

Posted on 25.07.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Conseils aux parents (après mon interview à la BBC ce soir au sujet des “sex offenders” bannis de MySpace): pas de panique, les prédateurs sexuels tels que nous les présentent les médias ne sont pas légion, votre enfant ne court … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged advice, anastasiagoodstein, bbc, children, ciao.ch, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, myspace, offline, online, Online Culture, panic, paranoia, parents, predators, Press, Psychology / Sociology, schools, security, Social Software, socialnetworks, talks, teenagers, teens | 14 Comments

MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia

Posted on 25.07.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Update: If you’re a parent looking for advice, you’ll probably find my next post more interesting. MySpace has removed profiles of 29’000 registered sex offenders from their site. In a statement, MySpace said: “We’re pleased that we’ve successfully identified and … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Technology | Tagged children, Citations, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, Media, meganslaw, myspace, offenders, online, Online Culture, paranoia, Politics / World News, predators, Psychology / Sociology, registry, Research, safety, sex, sexoffenders, sexualpredators, Technology, teenagers, teens | 43 Comments

Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!

Posted on 04.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Here we go, yet another misguided attempt at localisation: my MySpace page is now in German. MySpace now joins PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Google in defaulting to German for Swiss people. Switzerland is a multilingual country. The linguistic majority speaks Swiss-German … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged allemand, amazon, ebay, english, french, german, google, italian, italien, l10n, language, Languages / Linguistics, langue, linguisticminority, localisation, localization, minoritélinguistique, myspace, paypal, romanche, romansh, Software and Tools, suisse, suisse-allemand, suisseromande, swissgerman, switzerland, Venting, Website Reviews, Comments, and Linkage | 45 Comments

English Only: Barrier to Adoption

Posted on 24.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Dans ce billet à l’attention des anglophones, j’insiste sur le fait que l’inexistance d’une version en français d’un produit va entraver son adoption ici. Même si les gens parlent anglais (un peu, beaucoup) cela rajoute une difficulté supplémentaire. Si Skype, … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world, Thinking, Wordpress | Tagged adoption, application, Citations, dotclear, english, Essay-Like, facebook, flickr, francophone, french, icq, internet, language, languagebarrier, Languages / Linguistics, livemessenger, msn, myspace, online, openweb, pompagenet, skyblog, skype, Social Software, Software and Tools, suisse romande, Theories, translation, usability, web2.0, webstandards, Wordpress | 14 Comments

Please Make Holes in My Buckets!

Posted on 13.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Tour d’horizon de mes différents “profils” à droite et a gauche dans le paysage des outils sociaux (social tools). Il manque de la communication entre ces différents services, et mon identité en ligne s’en trouve fragmentée et lourde à gérer. … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Social Media and the Web | Tagged Animals, Announcements, atom, Blogger musings, blogging, Cinema / Films, contacts, dailymotion, del.icio.us, Events, exchange, facebook, feeds, flickr, friends, Geek / Technical, gmail, internet, Internet / Computers, Kit du blogueur, lastfm, linkedin, microformats, myspace, network, Online Culture, openbc, openid, orkut, profile, publishing, rss, sharing, Social Software, socialapplications, socialnetworking, socialtools, Software and Tools, suprglu, Temporary, Thinking, twitter, wordpress.com, xing, youtube | 22 Comments

Adolescents, MySpace, internet: citations de danah boyd et Henry Jenkins

Posted on 20.12.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Citations and some French comments/paraphrasing of danah boyd and Henry Jenkins’s interview “MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)”. Must-read if your life has anything to do with teenagers.[fr]Je viens de finir de lire ce fascinant interview de danah boyd … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged adolescents, ados, Citations, Cyberspace, danahboyd, danger, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, dopa, écoles, Education, Essay-Like, henryjenkins, internet, interview, Media, myspace, online, Online Culture, pédophilie, prevention, Readworthy, safety, schools, securité, security, Social Software, teenagers, teens, usa | 16 Comments