On March 10, 2015, the Internet Watch Foundation published a report entitled “Emerging Patterns and Trends Report #1: Youth-Produced Sexual Content.” This study was conducted from September to November 2014 by sourcing content from search engines and other online sources. The findings are a bit shocking. The images that the study assessed were broken down […]
(Image from Snapchat website) News across the tech blogs yesterday informed us that Snap Chat has partnered with three non-profit safety organizations to help raise awareness of the safe use of its app. They also launched a safety center (www.snapchat.com/safety) which has sections for users as well as parents. The page is a great resource […]
Most research that I review is written by adults from a very adult perspective. The research topics are based on adult concerns regarding the effects of cyber bullying, sexting and internet pornography on kids, which makes sense because the scientists who are conducting this research are no longer kids. However, it stands to reason that […]
Recently I wrote about a research study that suggested that we look at sexting in a new framework. Not as a legal issue but as part of the new “normal” teen emancipation. Not only did this study provide data to support this theory, it also brought forth some suggestions for reducing sexting in teens based […]
Sexting is in the news nearly every day. We hear about adults getting arrested for sexting minors or minors getting in trouble for sexting each other. I have even seen news articles where parents turn their own children into the authorities when they find out they have been engaging in sexting. Our world (or at […]
Snapchat and apps like it such as Bolt, Taptalk, and Mirage, are often dubbed sexting apps. I have seen Snapchat, particularly, labeled as the sexting app. Sexting cases using these and other apps tend to make a big splash in the news. However, given the recently emerging scientific data about the lack of prevalence of […]
There has been a sizeable amount of press, particularly coming out of the United Kingdom, on the legal aspects of sexting and what could or would happen to adolescents if they are caught sexting, either sending images or receiving images. Around July 22, 2014, BBC news was full of articles relating to a case of […]
A study recently published in the Journal of Children and Media (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1748298.2014.923009) looked at sexting social norms as well as the relational context of sexting. Its findings shed light on the prevalence of teen sexting as well as the differences between genders. If you were to gather data simply from the general media reporting on […]
