Tag Archives: Digital Youth

Informations et prévention: adolescents et internet

[en]An overview of the different talks and trainings I can do regarding teenagers on the internet. I can do them in English too, but most of my clients here are French-speaking. If you’d like more information about this in English, … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, My corner of the world, Social Media and the Web | Tagged actioninnocence, adolescents, conference, Cyberspace, danger, dangers, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, écoles, edublogging, élèves, enseignants, formation, information, internet, jeunes, Online Culture, parents, pédophilie, prestations, prevention, risque, secondlife, security, services, Social Software, suisse romande, teenagers | 7 Comments

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 | 4 Comments

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 | 14 Comments

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 | 43 Comments

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 | 12 Comments

Video: BBC Interview (Teenagers, Facebook)

[fr]Une interview que je viens de donner à la BBC sur les parents qui jouent aux détectives privés pour “surveiller” leurs adolescents sur internet. Dialogue, dialogue![en]I was contacted this morning (thanks, Suw!) to appear in a short interview on the … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, My projects | Tagged bbc, bbcnews24, Digital Youth, Education, facebook, freshlimesoda, internet, interview, Online Culture, parents, stephaniebooth, teenagers, video | 33 Comments

Teenagers and Spelling

[fr]Pour moi, la dégradation constatée de l’orthographe des jeunes a principalement à voir avec le fait que leur pratique d’écriture a maintenant le plus souvent lieu dans des espaces “non normés” (c’est-à-dire en-dehors du milieu scolaire et “des adultes”, où … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Language Geekiness | Tagged cellphone, Digital Youth, Education, evolution, grammar, language, Languages / Linguistics, linguistics, mobile, Online Culture, school, sms, spelling, teenagers, text, Writing | 13 Comments

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

[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