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As Safer Internet Day arrives tomorrow (February 5, 2019), with its theme of using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively, Dr Bex Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age (Lion Hudson, 2014), reflects back on the themes of the stories that she has been asked to comment upon in the press this past year.
This year, Safer Internet Day focuses upon encouraging young people to explore how they ask, give, and receive consent online, within friendships or relationships, sharing content or managing their privacy and data to ensure that they take control of their online lives, and use the positive power of the internet for good.
See all my press output, and see this useful tweet:
A very helpful guide to the many apps kids use #SID2019 #digitalparenting https://t.co/uSOkPgUe2N
— Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S) February 3, 2019
also my earlier tweet:
Yes to all this for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek - it’s so easy to look to blame technology for everything - but having strong family relationships, spaces to go and be creative, etc are all more important! https://t.co/CqyXNHVPPj
— Dr Bex Lewis (@drbexl) February 4, 2019
These guidelines are reasonable, if still a little too much on the ‘dangers’ of screentime, rather than seeing it as a part of everyday/balanced life!
Worth reading - https://unherd.com/2019/02/do-we-really-have-a-suicidal-generation/ - about how stats can be misused