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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| description | 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 & Jenkins, 2006; Chung & Grimes, 2005; Livingstone, 2009; Marwick, 2008). While the stranger danger meme has proven profitable for companies selling parental surveillance software (i.e. ‘censorware’), research indicates that children are safer now than a decade ago (Boyd & Jenkins, 2006; Lumber, 2009; Statistics Canada, 2003; Wastler, 2010; Wolak, Finkelhor & Mitchell, 2004; Wolak, Finkelhor, Mitchell & Ybarra, 2008; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). However, it is the concern about risk, rather than an increase in actual risk, which is the story behind the headlines (Kelley, Mayall & Hood, 1997). |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-449802017-01-30T15:17:39Z The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media Nolan, J. Raynes-Goldie, Kate McBride, M. Canada surveillance social media Internet studies children 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 & Jenkins, 2006; Chung & Grimes, 2005; Livingstone, 2009; Marwick, 2008). While the stranger danger meme has proven profitable for companies selling parental surveillance software (i.e. ‘censorware’), research indicates that children are safer now than a decade ago (Boyd & Jenkins, 2006; Lumber, 2009; Statistics Canada, 2003; Wastler, 2010; Wolak, Finkelhor & Mitchell, 2004; Wolak, Finkelhor, Mitchell & Ybarra, 2008; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). However, it is the concern about risk, rather than an increase in actual risk, which is the story behind the headlines (Kelley, Mayall & Hood, 1997). 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44980 Canadian Association for Young Children restricted |
| spellingShingle | Canada surveillance social media Internet studies children Nolan, J. Raynes-Goldie, Kate McBride, M. The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media |
| title | The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media |
| title_full | The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media |
| title_fullStr | The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media |
| title_short | The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media |
| title_sort | stranger danger: exploring surveillance, autonomy, and privacy in children’s use of social media |
| topic | Canada surveillance social media Internet studies children |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44980 |