Six tips on how to check out that latest online threat that’s targeting your children. How you can easily tell if it’s real or just another hoax?
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A cybersecurity expert offers tips to keep high schoolers safe on mobile devices, computers, games and social media.
Parents – stop panicking. Teens use secondary Instagram accounts not to be sneaky, but to show their “non-polished” selves and connect with small groups of true friends.
Research shows that parents play the most important role in prevention of cyberbullying. Here are four ways they can step up for their kids.
What happens to your Facebook account, your iTunes purchases and your email messages when you die?
When it comes to online spaces, children are usually taught about cyber safety and keeping information private, but curating a positive digital footprint could actually benefit them later in life.
Around the world, people are both increasingly dependent on, and distrustful of, digital technology. New research suggests ways this conflict could unfold.
Parents should ask their teens to show them how they use social media and how it works so they can have conversations about what the risks are and how to reduce them.
More than 300 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute - and many children’s clips are unauthorised, sneaky or even disturbing. Being aware is the first step.
Facebook’s record raises serious questions about whether it can be trusted with our most intimate images.
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they’re doing it with bits and bytes. It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, so what to do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
Some of the iPhone’s innovations have made users less secure.
If children and teenagers are comfortable with social media, we should use it as a means to reach them and ensure they understand the do’s and dont’s.
On Q&A, panellist Faustina Agolley questioned whether there were laws protecting against revenge porn in Australia. As it turns out, it all depends on where you live.
Moves to make sex education compulsory cannot come quickly enough.
People who think like hackers have some really good ideas about how to protect digital privacy during turbulent times. We can learn from them.
Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
The developing world is waking up to the internet. We need to know how new generations of children use it.
Top contributors
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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PhD candidate researching children's play in digital games, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer, Journalism and Digital Communication, University of Central Lancashire
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University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in Political Theory, University of York
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Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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Professor of Internet Law, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Reader, School of Education, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
