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Straightforward video that suggests simple but often overlooked safety tips for going online. But is knowing how to protect yourself enough?

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I am further disturbed by how states abuse laws on internet access when close to 80% of children in the US have internet access.

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Who are we really asking to monitor children online when we call on parents to promote digital safety and literacy?

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It’s imperative to understand how digital spaces are used to exploit children in a multiplicity of ways, including using digital and video game spaces as military recruitment tools.

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How I feel about free online labour.

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“According to a 2006–2008 study on Ontario teachers leaving the profession, leading factors cited from those dissatisfied with their job were as follows: Workload and stress issues, class sizes, issues with school administrators or local school board policies, and government educational policies.”

Yet, somehow, overworked educators along with overworked parents are expected to take on the burden of ensuring digital safety and digital literacy for children.

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In the age of information, too much information is never enough. The paradox of tracking children offline while contributing to the tracking of children online.

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“According to the International Association of Internet Hotlines, the number of webpages containing child sexual abuse materials increased by 147 percent from 2012 to 2014, with girls and children 10 years old or younger portrayed in 80 percent of these materials.”

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When online identities become become fused with offline identities, what happens to any distinction between the two? How does such a fusion of identities alter relationships, labour and ‘reality’? How does mobile, wireless technologies increase our dependence on online identities and social networking platforms?

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Predicting the future before it happens.

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“I’m worried about overt surveillance becoming much more invasive because it is linked to everything else,” Porter said. “You might have a video photograph of somebody shopping in Tesco. Now it is possible to link that person to their pre-movements, their mobile phone records, any sensor detectors within their house or locality. As smart cities move forward, these are challenges are so much greater for people like myself. And members of the public need to decide whether they are still happy with this.”

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How much data every minute? At least this much. Who gets all this data? We know but do we care?

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https://www.elfontheshelf.com/

Behaviour surveillance. Normalizing surveillance as a means of achieving a desired end. Besides the elf itself, the link at the top allows children the opportunity to engage with product as part of an advergame.

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In the latter portion of her talk, Helen Hester extends Ian Bogost’s hyperemployment to not only include the micro-labour involved with managing social networks, but also to the hyperemployment involved in being unemployed and, more importantly, to the domestic space of the home as a site, specifically, for the labour of women and racialized women.