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Online child protection survey
I'm a digital professional studying for a Masters in Digital Communications from the Manchester business school (MMU). I'm undertaking a project looking into online child protection. Specifically I'm looking at whether parents have the technical skills required to help their children use the internet safely.
If you are a parent of children aged 18 months to 13 years, it would really help me if you could complete this survey which will genuinely only take 10 minutes of your time. No personal details will be gathered and you can withdraw your data from the study at any point.
Thank you for your help.
If you have any questions about this survey, please contact me via sophiemmu@gmail.com.
Sophie Smith
MMU Student
Take the survey: http://bit.ly/N8e5Y8
Tags for Forum Posts: children, grooming, online, security, survey
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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If you think your children will not get around anything technological that YOU have put in place, you are mistaken. Think about the Internet as Wood Green Mall.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Generally, parents do not have the technical skills to use the internet safely.
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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Funnily enough I was wondering earlier today if there is a local workshop for parents to try and keep up with what their children are able to do on the internet. My 2 can run rings round me and they are at only primary school.
Will complete the survey now.
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Permalink Reply by Sophie Smith on
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Thanks to everyone that's completed this so far, it's terrifically helpful. I'll try and share the results here later. Don't feel you are the only person not to have heard of Stardoll and Webkinz - massively popular kids sites, apparently!
Actually the idea for researching this topic came off the back of the Habbo Hotel grooming story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18424400) which was in the news recently - it was remarkable how many grown-ups hadn't heard of this popular kids site mostly used by younger teens. I'd barely heard of it myself (I'm not a parent but I've worked in digital for 12 years).
I was following the story on Twitter and it was remarkable how us adults didn't seem to understand what the site was and how many kids were responding with the attitude "Yeah, there's loads of paedos online. You just avoid them. What's the big deal?" It's clear there's a big gap in knowledge and understanding. I think my view is probably that it's fairly hopeless trying to understand everything kids are up to online. I struggle to keep my own Facebook page going let alone keep up with what another demographic segment are doing. From the reading I've done it seems pretty clear that parents that discuss this stuff with their kids and do stuff like browse the net together seem to be the most successful at stopping any harm occurring. As you might expect, studies that look at banning kids from doing stuff are less successful - in fact it seems to encourage older teens to take risks in fact. I guess we might have predicted that!
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Permalink Reply by David Barry on
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When, pre the internet, parliament was debating the basis on which cable television would be regulated -it was the Thatcher era - the question of channels showing "adult content" came up. It was proposed that the legislation would require the companies to have an "Electronic Lock" or some such thing on the set top boxes so that children in a household could be barred from watching the undesirable. This idea was killed. Stone dead. And instantly. When an MP pointed out that in his experience the only people who would be able to work the lock in most households would be the children.....
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