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This study looked at the impact of the 4-H Club's Facebook page and its impact on positive youth development. Findings suggest that their Facebook page can foster positive youth development whereby the social media platform can be used by youth who are part of the organization for learning experiences and to address community issues, for example.

The article looks at the role of teachers in developing digital citizenship in youth. In particular a five-factor Digital Citizenship Scale called S.A.F.E. is examined that supports digital citizenship education for youth. Findings include the need to consider a multidimensiona​​l approach to digital citizenship education that goes beyond learning how to use tools.

The new cultural developments problematize the previous policy frames that governed educational technology when the CIPA was set in place. The policy argument of expanding youth access to computing via schools becomes weak if young people prefer to use new media away from school. Furthermore, young people appear to engage in far more creative and compelling learning behaviors with new media outside of school, with few opportunities within classroom walls.

Using data from a longitudinal study of LGBTQ youth and young adults, this study looks at levels of outness, victimization, and social support within Facebook. Findings included that these youth and young adults use the secutriy controls and other features of Facebook to manage their identities.

American youth are interested in civic engagement as well as in playing with media. A research team commissioned by MTV interviewed more than twelve hundred young people, conducted expert interviews and ethnographies, and took a national poll of a representative sample ages 12-24, between December 2005 and April 2006. The research found, 70% believing in the importance of helping the community, 68% already doing something to support a cause on a monthly basis and 82% describing themselves at least somewhat involved. From this data, it does seem that the majority of young people are convinced that civic engagement (i.e., supporting a social cause of some kind) is something they should be involved. However, there is a strong disparity between interest and involvement, an "activation gap" and there is significant room for growth.

I read about Helene Hegemann in the 1st chapter of "Disconnected : Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap". She was celebrated author of "Axolotl Roadkill" at age 17. It was discovered that she plagiarized portions of her novel. This article is an informal interview and article on the author. It gives a short summary of the novel and more details concerning the plagiarized portions. Helene defends her novel as a "remix" - which is what everybody in the digital age is doing. This brings up ethical issues such as intellectual property, authority; and obviously "originality and authenticity."

Communication technology usage was not related to identity exploration, commitment, or status, but it did predict psychological symptom severity over and above the identity and relationship variables. Conclusions: Communication technology usage was found to be related to identity and relationship problems, and was linked to greater maladjustment, even after controlling for identity and relationship difficulties.

The author believes young people are the most avid users of digital media throughout their daily lives, so we can expect that digital media will be central to their civic lives. Also civic organizations are so deeply enmeshed in the online world that basic participation now requires a certain amountof digital literacy. Civic life is rapidly digitizing, so a crucial component of teaching students the skills to engage as competent civic actors is teaching them how to engage in virtual spaces persuasively, critically, collectively, and before invisible audiences.

Lawrence Lessig's videos are required reading but relevant to my topic. He discusses remix culture for the youth.

I thought this was an interesting topic based on what some of our discussion posts were about this week. - s.seeley

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"The impact of bullying in all forms on the mental health and safety of adolescents is of particular interest, especially in the wake of new methods of bullying that victimize youths through technology. The current study examined the relationship between victimization from both physical and cyber bullying and adolescent suicidal behavior. Violent behavior, substance use, and unsafe sexual behavior were tested as mediators between two forms of bullying, cyber and physical, and suicidal behavior...."