What Parents Need to Know About the Squad App
The Squad app has become enormously popular in recent months. Here’s what you need to know about the screen-sharing platform. Source: Bark
Online Exploitation Trends
June is Internet Safety Month As the end of Internet Safety Month nears, NCMEC child safety experts and creators of NetSmartz “Into the Cloud” will host a 30-minute Facebook Live on Tuesday, June 30th, 1:00-1:30pm EST. Join us to learn more about trends NCMEC is seeing in online exploitation and tools available…
Task Force Topics with TIJF – Self-Production
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How Hardcore Porn is Dramatically Changing Teens Expectations for Sex
“What teen boys learn about sex from porn impacts teen girls, too. My female students talk to me about relationships and I hear a lot of anxiety.” Source: Fight the New Drug
Video games consume more electricity than 25 power plants can produce
Researchers set up a special lab to measure gaming’s massive carbon footprint. Source: Mother Jones
As Children Spend More Time Online, Predators Follow
Reports of online child exploitation have risen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Source: WSJ
What the Military Doesn’t Want You to Know About Video Games
The Maroon sits down with fourth-year Zara Bamford to discuss her thesis, which argues that the U.S. military utilizes violent video games to recruit future soldiers and desensitize them to the horrors of warfare. Source: www.chicagomaroon.com
You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media | The Twisted Truth
This might be one of the most important videos I’ve edited in 2018. After everything that has been going on with the privacy crisis and Facebook CEO Mark Zuc… Source: YouTube
The Parasocial Phenomenon (via www.pbs.org)
One-way digital communications is rewriting a fundamental piece of the human experience—social interactions. Source: www.pbs.org
Silicon Valley is racing to build the next version of the Internet. Fortnite might get there first.
The Metaverse is coming. Epic Games wants to create it, as does Silicon Valley. And the covid-19 pandemic may be accelerating the process. Source: Washington Post
