The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media

The threat of online ‘stranger danger’ is a dominant theme in mainstream Western media reporting about children and the Internet. This climate of fear and moral panic has certain parents seeking increasingly restrictive measures to keep their children ‘out of harm’s way’ (Barnes, 2006; Boyd & Je...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nolan, J., Raynes-Goldie, Kate, McBride, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Canadian Association for Young Children 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44980