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Sexting & the plummeting teen pregnancy rate

January 27, 2015

by Anne Collier Don’t believe anything you hear about sexting causing an increase in teen pregnancy. There is no way it can be true. How can I say that? Because teen

About our strange way of understanding teen sexting

October 17, 2014

Guest post by Nina Funnell Based on her many thoughtful conversations with youth and adults about sexting over several years, Australian researcher and author Nina Funnell

Enabling peer protection: Knowledge is empowerment

September 2, 2014

By Anne Collier From infancy on up we learn what’s right and wrong, based on our families’ and, later, peers’ values. That’s important. It develops

Virginia teen sexting case: (Somewhat) reduced injustice

August 6, 2014

By Anne Collier It was a picture-perfect example of how a law intended to protect children can be used to victimize them. But the juvenile judge didn’t comment on the

‘Revenge porn’: Exposing cruel disclosure

August 3, 2014

By Anne Collier This is a sidebar to my earlier post about social norms as one of the solutions to social cruelty online, zooming in on one form of it. “Revenge

Textbook case of what NOT to do in teen sexting cases

July 14, 2014

By Anne Collier The Washington Post has done some important reporting on a teen sexting case in Virginia, spotlighting what could (should) go down in history as a textbook

Social media major factor in teens’ social & sex lives: Australia study

July 1, 2014

By Anne Collier With its 5th national study of Australian teens’ sexual attitudes, behaviors and health since 1992, La Trobe University for the first time took a

Youth sexuality, romance & digital media in Canada: Study

June 26, 2014

By Anne Collier When MediaSmarts conducted its focus groups with young Canadians, it heard quite a bit about the important role the Internet plays in their “exploring

Zooming in on social norms: Youth sexting study

June 25, 2014

By Anne Collier The research on teen and young adult sexting is getting more granular. One of the more interesting findings in a new study at Drexel University indicated that

‘Noodz,’ ‘selfies,’ ‘sexts,’ etc., Part 3: Bias in the news coverage

May 11, 2013

By Anne Collier Sexting is the latest subject of “intersecting panics about technology, youth, sexuality, raunch culture and celebrity,” Australian author and