Click Clever, Click Safe Strategy, launched by the UK Council on Child Internet Safety, has been created as a result of one of Tanya Byron’s recommendations in the report ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’ (Byron Review). This strategy will help practitioners focus on the opportunities and risks to young people online.
Bibliography of articles concerning social network sites. For an overview of this space, including a definition of “social network sites,” a history of SNSs, and a literature review, see boyd & Ellison’s 2007 introduction to the JCMC Special Issue on Social Network Sites, Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship.
On my Christmas wish list is Tim Davies and Jasmine Ali’s newly edited book Social Media – Youth Participation in Local Democracy‘ which draws on
theory and case studies explored during action learning, and highlights some of the issues that practitioners need to consider in exploring the use of social networks and social media in youth participation. It’s available to order from the LGIU Website.
The Local Democracy Economic Development and Construction Act received Royal Ascent on 12th November 2009, meaning that councils will be required to respond to local Petitions and ePetitions about issues people feel are really important to them and their local communities. Another requirement of the Act is a duty on local councils to promote democracy and ensure all sections of their community understand how the council and other public bodies work, who make decisions and how they can get involved Read more
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