Policy and Rights Challenges in Children's Online Behaviour and Safety, 2017-2023

This book evidences the cyclical failures of online safety policy and challenge conventional policy and educational approaches to tackling online harms, and provide a robust argument for a critical, evidence-based approaches which align with the needs of those we claim to wish to protect. It argues for a move away from knee jerk, headline grabbing and subjective policy development. In drawing parallels from the drug policy world, contrasting the increasingly progressive and evidence based policy making in this space compared to prejudiced, emotive developments in online harms.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Moving On?.- Chapter 2: The Rhetoric of Online Safety and the Five-Year Policy Cycle.- Chapter 3: The Exosystem: Online Harms Moral Panics, the Last Five Years.- Chapter 4: Online Safety Policy and Practice- Exploring the Microsystems.- Chapter 5: The Silent Youth Voice.- Chapter 6: The Broken Ecosystem.- Chapter 7: Conclusions and Predictions for the Future of Online Safety Policy.

About the author

Andy Phippen is Professor of Digital Rights at Bournemouth University, UK.

Summary

This book evidences the cyclical failures of online safety policy and challenge conventional policy and educational approaches to tackling online harms, and provide a robust argument for a critical, evidence-based approaches which align with the needs of those we claim to wish to protect. It argues for a move away from knee jerk, headline grabbing and subjective policy development. In drawing parallels from the drug policy world, contrasting the increasingly progressive and evidence based policy making in this space compared to prejudiced, emotive developments in online harms.

Product details

• Authors: Andy Phippen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2025
• EAN: 9783031802850
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3180285-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Illustrations: X, 168 p. 4 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, IT- und Kommunikationsrecht, Postrecht, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kinder- und Jugendhilfe, Medienwissenschaften, Computer- und Internetkriminalität, cybercrime, Media Law, Science and Technology Studies, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Children and Youth Work, Digital Criminology, Online safety bill, safeguarding, Digital economy bill, Online harms