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Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative

The Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative will explore policy issues that fall within three substantive clusters that emerge from youth's information and communications technology practices: Risky Behaviors and Online Safety; Privacy, Publicity and Reputation; and Youth Created Content and Information Quality. more >

The Berkman Center's Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative will explore those policy issues that fall within three substantive clusters that emerge from youth's information and communications technology (ICT) practices:

Risky Behaviors and Online Safety (led by danah boyd);
Privacy, Publicity and Reputation (led by John Palfrey); and
Youth Created Content and Information Quality (led by Urs Gasser).

In each of these clusters, we seek to:

map and analyze the key policy aspects that deserve attention by private and public policy-makers;
summarize the current state of knowledge and research; and
identify key policy considerations and, to the greatest extent possible on a compressed timeline, make specific policy recommendations.

Our intended audience is policymakers, both in the public and private sectors. In the public sector, the audience will primarily be federal policymakers, including legislators and regulators. In the private sector, the targeted audience consists of corporate policy-setters and technology developers (those who write "code" as self-executing policy). The intent of this initiative is to bring the best research on youth and media into the policy-making debate and to propose practical, relevant, situated solutions based upon that research.

Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality

Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation, levels of new literacies, general digital media usage, and social patterns affect these activities.

authored by urs gasser, sandra cortesi, momin malik, ashley lee, youth and media policy working group initiative, published on 23 feb 2012

danah boyd: "Combating Sexual Exploitation Online: Focus on the Networks of People, not the Technology” (testimony)

Youth and media research update

The Berkman Center has recently organized all of its research efforts relating to young people and technology – including new work on youth in developing countries – under a single project umbrella: Youth and Media...

5 oct 2010

Call for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011: Designing Learning Futures

Risky Behaviors and Online Safety: draft literature review

What is known about online youth safety? danah boyd releases the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative's DRAFT literature review on the topic -- for public comment and critique...

25 jun 2010

"Sexting": legal and practical issues

The Berkman Center is pleased to share our Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative's latest document, which addresses legal and practical issues related to the practice colloquially known as sexting.

23 jun 2010

Sexting: Youth Practices and Legal Implications

This document addresses legal and practical issues related to the practice colloquially known as sexting. It was created by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center, for the Center’s Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative.

authored by dena sacco, rebecca argudin, james maguire, kelly tallon, cyberlaw clinic, published on 23 jun 2010

Four Essays Addressing Risky Behaviors and Online Safety

From danah boyd's blog: "...John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I have been co-directing the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative to investigate the role that policy can play in addressing core issues involving youth and media...Today, I’m pleased to share four important essays that emerged from the work we’ve been doing in the Risky Behaviors and Online Safety track..."

18 jun 2010

Working Towards a Deeper Understanding of Digital Safety for Children and Young People in Developing Nations

An Exploratory Study by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, in Collaboration with UNICEF

This paper's main objectives are: to raise awareness about issues related to digital safety for youth in developing nations; to provide a tentative map of these issues and give insights into the current state of the respective research based on an exploratory literature review; and to outline the contours of a research framework through a series of working hypotheses that might inform subsequent research efforts on these issues by connecting efforts in developing and industrialized nations.

authored by urs gasser, colin maclay, john palfrey, youth in developing countries, published on 16 jun 2010

How the COPPA, as Implemented, Is Misinterpreted by the Public: A Research Perspective

Statement to the United States Senate, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Statement by danah boyd, Urs Gasser, and John Palfrey, urging consideration of the gap between the intentions of COPPA and how children and their parents perceive its implementation.

authored by danah boyd, urs gasser, john palfrey, published on 29 apr 2010

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