February 2018 | MediaSmarts

Teens Losing Sleep to Tech
Submitted by Lynn Jatania on 12 Feb 2018.

As a kid, did you ever hide a flashlight under your pillow? Then pull it out after you were supposed to be asleep, so you could sneak in another half-hour of reading?

I did that. A lot.

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Cell Phones and Texting, Internet & Mobile, Parents, Social Networking
Getting Used to Google Home
Submitted by Lynn Jatania on 12 Feb 2018.

We got a new tech toy at Christmas this year – a Google Home. I must admit, I’d only learned that such a device existed a couple of weeks before I ordered one as a gift for my husband. I wasn’t sure what it would do or how we would use it, but it seemed like fun and it was on sale, so I picked one up.

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Internet & Mobile, Parents
Sexting: Shifting the Focus from Victim-Blaming to Respect and Consent
Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 06 Feb 2018.

Few issues capture our anxiety about young people and digital media so perfectly as sexting. As with technologies at least as far back as the telegraph, much of this anxiety has focused specifically on girls and women.

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Cell Phones and Texting, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Gender Representation, Internet & Mobile, Sexting, Sexual Exploitation, Social Networking

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