Online child safety
Subtitle: law, technology and governance
By: Joseph Savirimuthu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780230241527
Subjects: Internet and children; Safety measures; Computers and children; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; COMPUTERS / Internet / Security; Law and legislation; LAW / Science & Technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
Description: "Although the subject of children's rights and the sociology of childhood and child sexual abuse has been the subject of extensive scholarly deliberation and commentary, there has been very little consideration of the way networks and digital information create a trust deficit, which consequently implicates all non-State actors and civil society. There is a need to understand the dynamics of the multi-stakeholder Internet governance model and the challenges Web 2.0 technologies pose for child protection policy-making. This book fills the lacuna. Online Child Safety: Law, Technology and Governance directs its focus on the governance challenges raised by the problems of ascertaining the integrity, authenticity and reliability of information flows and network infrastructures for our attitudes towards risks facing children and strategies for enhancing their safety in the online environment. It also seeks to understand the nature of convergence and articulates the significance of emerging regulatory trends in the way compliance with child safety norms are defined, communicated and enforced"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Regulating Risks: Convergence, Technology and Social Policy; title: Online Sexual Grooming of Children, Obscene Content and Peer Victimization: Legal and Investigatory Issues; title: Trans-Border Challenges to Enforcing Online Child Safety Laws; title: Online Child Safety: International Cooperation and Policymaking; title: Online Child Safety, Civil Society and the Private Sector: Alternative Strategies; title: The Child, Media Literacy and Policy Implications; title: Concluding Thoughts: The Tethered Child; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.