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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: predators
Reading the Ofcon Report on Social Networking: Stats, Stranger Danger, Perceived Risk
[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
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Daily Mail Shocked by Teen Cleavage
[fr]Encore une panique au sujet des photos d’ados sur les réseaux sociaux. Gardez la tête froide. Vais bloguer si j’ai le temps ces prochains jours.[en]Kevin Marks tweets: Daily Mail is shocked, shocked to find teenage cleavage on Bebo; reprints it … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web
Tagged bebo, Digital Youth, facebook, fear, Online Culture, predators, schools, sexuality, Social Software, teenagers, teens
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MySpace supprime les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels”
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
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Parents, Teenagers, Internet, Predators, Fear…
[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
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MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia
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
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What Do You Care About?
[fr]Hier soir, au lieu de me demander “alors, qu’est-ce que tu fais?”, David Isenberg m’a demandé “de quoi te préoccupes-tu” (ou, peut-être, “quels sont les thèmes chers à ton coeur” — traduction pas évidente de “what do you care about”). … Continue reading
De la “prévention internet”
[fr]Thursday evening, I went to listen to a conference given by a local high-ranking police officer who has specialised in tracking down pedophiles on the internet. His presentation was titled “Dangers of the Internet”, and I was expecting to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Livre, My corner of the world
Tagged action, annecatherinelyon, arnoldpoot, blink, Blogger musings, cluetrain, conversation, danger, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, discussion, écrire, Education, internet, jeunes, lefameuxlivre, Livre, malcolmgladwell, Online Culture, onlineculture, parenting, pédophiles, police, pornographie, prédateur, predators, prevention, Psychology / Sociology, sexualpredators, suisse romande, thecultureoffear, Theories on Life and the World, thetippingpoint, Thinking, vaud
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