Archive for the ‘Totally Wired’ Category

Last week I was in Chicago speaking to high school freshman and sophomores (as well as separately to parents and counselors) about Totally Wired-related issues. It’s interesting to be revisiting these topics three years after the book first came …

The first week of March I’m heading back to the Chicagoland area to do a couple of paid speaking gigs based on Totally Wired — what’s new and different for me is that instead of speaking just to parents/educators, I …

I was included on an email thread by danah boyd along with Henry Jenkins about a new web application called Paralert. The original email was from a writer covering this startup who was disturbed by the idea of parents using …

We tweeted a link yesterday about an Ofcom study reporting that “young people want more information about online privacy.” Of course, if you look at the stats:

- Over a quarter (28 percent) also believe that information is needed on

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I’ll never forget the afternoon I interviewed three teens up at Tam High in Marin for Totally Wired when I asked them about multitasking. Of course all three admitted to having multiple browsers open, checking social networking sites, IMing, texting …

This morning I stumbled across this piece of disturbing news out of China, which alleged that a 15-year-old was beaten to death in a rehab camp for internet addicts. While we [thankfully] don’t have government-run camps for teenage “internet addicts” …

In today’s Cynopsis Kids we learned that:

In an effort to combat the rise of “sexting” and other digitally lascivious trends, AT&T, iKeepSafe, and the American School Counselor Association launched “Project Pro”, a suite of interactive resources to help educate

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I just returned from a week in Mexico where I chose to be “totally unwired.” Luckily, Ypulse has grown to the point where I can now take a vacation and know the blog is in good hands (thanks Meredith!). Before …

Yesterday as I was driving home from a meeting at Facebook, I got a call from a producer for the Today Show asking if I might be up for an interview about the girls who decided to take a bath …

The other day my best friend from college and I decided to not “talk” on Facebook, but to use old fashioned email and the phone. My husband pointed out that sending a message on Facebook is really no different than …