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The Power of Who and Why: How Two Simple Questions Can Increase Your Kids’ Media Savvy
By Tylar Bloch When you’re reading the news, it’s easy to take the facts at face value. This is especially true when news comes in the form of social media posts and videos, where information can be presented enticingly and without much of the context needed to fully capture [...]
How soon is too soon for social media
By Jacob Aldrich Everyone in this day and age knows what social media is, and most everyone we know and care about has and uses at least one form of social media. But with all the good that social media can do, there are also some dangers and explicit [...]
Talking with your child about outbursts and games
By Jacob Aldrich As children are becoming more and more involved in screens and technology, there has also been another situation which has been seeing more and more increasingly: loud, often angry outbursts from otherwise calm and happy children. With the recent popularization of games such as Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, [...]
Cyberbullying and Youth
By Kristie Kakos Since the start of chat rooms, social media platforms and any back-and-forth communication between two, or more individuals cyberbullying started evolving. Personally, I come from the “millennial” generation. This generation is considered “digital natives”. We have seen rapid technological growth. This would be such as computers [...]
AI Scams on the Rise
By Stephanie Olson Invasive technology, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become more and more normalized in society today with digital voice assistants like Siri, through social media to personalize your feed, through face recognition to open an iPhone, and more. AI has been used by dangerous people to [...]
The Attacks in Israel as Seen on Social Media: A Reminder to Contextualize Violence for Kids
By Tylar Bloch The recent tragedies in Israel have reverberated throughout the internet, as the gruesome events are being captured, uploaded, and reshared by netizens around the globe. Consider the video of an Israeli soldier being dragged out of a tank that circulated on social media. Or a post on [...]
Keeping An Eye Out For Internet Scams: Signs and Warnings
By Jacob Aldrich A Kentucky woman recently thought she had found a once-in-a-lifetime connection with Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery after apparently meeting with the star on an online forum. But she was dismayed when she found out she had been scammed, and even worse: she had left her husband [...]
Children, the Internet, and Screen TIme
By Jasmine London-Thomas It is interesting to know how much the internet has changed during the past 20 years. I am a part of the generation of kids who basically saw the internet blow up to what we know it is today. One of my favorite memories as a kid [...]
Viral Posts: The Good and the Bad
By Jasmine London-Thomas Background Info: You may have come across a video that has gone viral on your favorite social media platform when you log on. As a matter of fact, it can sometimes lead to good things like videos showing people doing good deeds, but at other times [...]
What is ChatGPT and What Are Its Effects on Privacy?
By Megan Farnam ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by startup company, OpenAI. ChatGPT is built on top of an algorithm called GPT that OpenAI began developing several years ago. GPT predicts the words that should follow a prompt based on a statistical analysis of trillions of lines of text [...]
The Cost of Toxic Beauty Content is Greater Than We Think
By Megan Farnam This year, Dove released a three-minute video of Mary’s destructive journey with media and body image. It begins with images and videos of a sweet, beautiful young girl looking happy playing with her friends and finding interest in reading. It continues on to show Mary being [...]
The True Dangers of Young Teenagers on Instagram
By Stephanie Olson Social media can be a dangerous place for young children to openly give out their information whether it be in their biographies or by what they post. On the other hand, social media is the perfect place for predators to find vulnerable, young teenagers that they [...]