New Efforts to Protect Teens on Snapchat
Last week Snapchat released new features targeting users 13-17 on the platform. Protections for teens on Snapchat have been slow to arrive and lacking features.
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What’s Being Done to Protect Teens on Instagram and Messenger?
Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, will be using automation and giving parents more visibility into activities to protect teens on their platforms.
Dick Pic Culture: How do Teenage Girls Navigate it?
As I sit to write this, I’m experiencing something I never anticipated in my professional life. I just wrote the phrase “Dick Pic Culture” in the headline.
What Young Women’s Experiences with Sexting can tell us about Compliance, Coercion and Consent
The #MeToo movement has brought long overdue attention to the experiences of women who have been victims of sexual abuse and harassment. If you look behind the sensational headlines, the movement has sparked a much-needed conversation about consent. I have previously written about how we teach consent in our practice in a blog on the […]
Girls and Sexting
I am writing to you today from the annual conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Each year, in addition to traditional talks, there are poster presentations. Today, Marion Desfachelles, a Ph.D. student at the University of Montreal, presented a poster on her research on girls and sexting. Background on Canadian Laws […]
