Mar 3, 2020
The Terror Of Teen Drivers: Parents Track Their Kids Without Being In The Car
Apps allow parents and insurers to track teen drivers, though sometimes it backfires. Read the article here.
Research + News | Topic: Digital Footprint
Feb 28, 2020
How Schools Are Using Kids’ Phones To Track And Surveil Them
A technology used in a number of prisons is tracking students now too. Read the article here.
Feb 25, 2020
App Monitors Teens’ Phones So Parents Don’t Have To
Developers say that because the app monitors tens of thousands of teens, it can pick up on trends and understands the way teens communicate. Read the article here.
Feb 21, 2020
How Colleges Use Kids’ Social Media Feeds
Learn how what you post can hurt — and help — the admissions process. Read the article here.
Feb 18, 2020
Teens Are Deleting Instagrams Almost As Fast As They Post Them
Regularly culling their feeds helps ensure teens are putting their best face forward and youthful transgressions don’t come back to haunt them. Read the article here.
Feb 5, 2020
For Gen Z-ers, YouTube Algorithm ‘Gets Me’
Algorithms designed by social and streaming platforms have been working hard in the background to learn user behavior and serve up new content specifically catered to each individual’s specific interests. Read the article here.
Feb 3, 2020
Will You Be My #Content?
For social media influencers and oversharers, life is full of material. But what if their friends don’t want to be the co-stars? Read the article here.
Oct 15, 2019
‘Sharenting’: Teens Think Parents Share Too Much About Them On Social Media
42 percent of teens think their parents overshare about them online. Read the article here.
May 24, 2019
Dear Parents: The Internet Never Forgets
Many children growing up today will discover that their digital footprint began in utero and didn’t stop there. This phenomenon has come to be known as “sharenting”—when parents share pictures and videos of their kids on social media, creating an indelible trail of digital bread crumbs. Watch a video report covering this issue here.
May 24, 2019
A Teen Texted A Graphic Video Of Herself To Friends. A Court Said She’d Shared Child Pornography
The three teenagers regularly shared silly videos, trying to one-up each other and trusting the group text messages would remain private.
But one especially sensitive text did not stay among them – landing the teen who first sent it at the center of a novel court case over a sexually explicit video she made of herself and shared.
Read the rest of the article here.