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De Souza, Zaineb; Dick, Geoffrey N. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2008
This paper reports the results of the first academic study of the use of a major social networking website, MySpace, by children. The study examined the degree of, and reasons for, information disclosure by children in high schools in Sydney, Australia. Social networking sites such as MySpace are a huge Internet phenomenon, some with hundreds of…
Descriptors: Privacy, Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Sites
Federal Trade Commission, 2009
This booklet gives adults practical tips to help kids navigate the online world. Kids and parents have many ways of socializing and communicating online, but they come with certain risks. This guide encourages parents to reduce the risks by talking to kids about how they communicate--online and off--and helping kids engage in conduct they can be…
Descriptors: Risk, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods
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Rosen, Larry D.; Cheever, Nancy A.; Carrier, L. Mark – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
Parent and teen MySpace user pairs completed online surveys administered in June (N = 266) and September 2006 (N = 341) to assess relationships between parenting styles and limit setting and monitoring of online behaviors, the prevalence of Internet dangers and pre-teen and teen MySpace behaviors. Cross-comparison measures of MySpace usage,…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Age Differences, Internet
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Wartman, Katherine Lynk, Ed.; Savage, Marjorie, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2008
This monograph is divided into three main sections: theoretical grounding, student identity, and implications. The first section, theoretical grounding of parental involvement, looks at the reasons parents today are more likely to be involved in their students' lives and then reviews the literature of K-12 education and compares that information…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, College Students, Parent Student Relationship, Parent School Relationship
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Giles, Rebecca McMahon – Childhood Education, 2006
Exposure to cell phones, DVD players, video games, computers, digital cameras, and iPods has made today's young people more technologically advanced than those of any previous generation. As a result, parents are now concerned that their children are spending too much time in front of the computer. In this article, the author focuses her…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Video Games, Educational Technology, Access to Computers