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Towards a Better Internet for Children? Policy Pillars, Players and Paradoxes
(2013)
  • Brian O'Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology
  • Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo
  • Sharon McLaughlin
Abstract
Keeping children safe online has been the subject of intensive policy debate ever since the mid-1990s when the internet first became an important public communications medium. The European Union has been to the fore in promoting internet safety and through its Safer Internet Programme has supported multistakeholder initiatives with industry, law enforcement, education and civil society to create a safer internet environment. Now, with a new emphasis on not just a safer but also a better internet, policy makers have signalled a new phase in strategies to protect children online. Reviewing the development of internet safety policy over this period – against the background of better evidence about the reality of young people’s experiences and looking to its future are among the key themes of this book.
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Nordicom
Citation Information
Brian O'Neill, Elisabeth Staksrud and Sharon McLaughlin. Towards a Better Internet for Children? Policy Pillars, Players and Paradoxes. Goteborg(2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brian_oneill/79/