By Alison Bennett
via Children & Young People Now
12 March 2008

A 1.8m pound initiative to get more than 250,000 young people involved in the media has been launched by Clubs for Young People.

The youth club network has teamed up with volunteering charity v, which is providing the cash, along with MTV and marketing company TomTom Nation to launch BOOM!

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Shareholders of Thomson Corp. and Reuters Wednesday approved plans for the Canadian firm to buy the British-based media and information group and create the biggest provider of financial data. (more…)

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DATE
27.MAR.2008

TITLE
Safer Children in a Digital World

AUTHOR
Dr. Tanya Byron

RESP
Launch by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (UK) subsequent to independent review commissioned by UK Prime Minister

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Report, Release Site
Press Release excerpts:

Dr Byron concludes that while new technologies bring incredible opportunities to children and young people, parent’s general lack of confidence and awareness is leaving children vulnerable to risks within their digital worlds. Many parents seem to believe that when their child is online it is similar to them watching television – Dr Byron is keen to emphasize that in fact it is more like opening the front door and letting your child go outside to play, unsupervised. Digital world risks are similar to real world risks but can be enhanced by the anonymity and ubiquity that the online space brings.

In order to improve children’s on-line safety, Dr Byron makes a number of ground breaking recommendations including:
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because children are being virtually raised

(from ippr’s press release of 24th March 2008)

The UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) will publish a report in April, Behind the Screen: the Hidden Life of Youth, which used qualitative analysis of young people’s internet and mobile media consumption.

“Some things they [parents] don’t understand and they ask me to explain it to them but they still don’t understand”

(Girl, 13)
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We’ve recently achieved charitable status with Revenue, giving us a new number to add to the list - CHY 17984.

In January we published our Annual Report for 2007, showing the work from last year in getting the organisation off the ground.

We’re trucking away on the Media Literacy Education Directory (2008). More about that later.

We’ll be away for a week beginning Mon 31st March, so if you’re looking to get in touch, you could try us from the 7th of April onwards.

Find out some more what we’re about here.

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but not as we know it.
Anne Looney, CEO NCCA

Presented at Media Literacy Education Symposium (Sat 3rd Nov. 2007, Cultivate Centre, Dublin)

When Gene Rodenberry conceived Star Trek, and the mission to boldly go where no man has gone before…. He was reflecting the anxieties of the US in the 1960’s…. racial tension, civil rights, cold war nuclear threats…. And no matter what happened, no matter what the future threw at the Starship Enterprise and her crew, simple brute force, coupled with some Vulcan cunning always, but always, won out and the captains log always recorded that the old certainties stood the test of time.
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