
Framing Internet Safety
The Governance of Youth Online
Nathan W. Fisk(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 9. December 2016
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-262-03515-6 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of governance, seen in panics over online pornography, predators, bullying, and reputation management.Since the beginning of the Internet era, it has become almost impossible to discuss youth and technology without mentioning online danger-pornography that is just a click away, lurking sexual predators, and inescapable cyberbullies. In this book, Nathan Fisk takes an innovative approach to the subject, examining youth Internet safety as a technology of governance-for information technologies and, by extension, for the forms of sociality and society they make possible. He argues that it is through the mobilization of various discourses of online risk that the everyday lives of youth are increasingly monitored and policed and the governing potentials of information technologies are explored. Fisk relates particular panics over youth Internet safety to patterns of technological adoption by young people, focusing on the policy response at the federal level aimed at producing future cybercitizens. He describes pedagogies of surveillance, which position parents as agents of surveillance; the evolution of the youth Internet safety curricula, as seen through materials on cyberbullying and online reputation management; and, drawing on survey results and focus groups, parent and child everyday practice. Finally, Fisk offers recommendations for a "cybersafety of everyday life," connecting youth Internet safety to trends in national infrastructure protection and corporate information assurance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-262-03515-6 (9780262035156)
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Nathan W. Fisk is Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Education Education at the University of South Florida and and faculty affiliate of the Florida Center for Cybersecurity. He is among the first cohort of Fulbright Cybersecurity Scholars.