Worried about the wrong things : youth, risk, and opportunity in the digital world /

It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically r...

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Main Author: Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Series:The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning
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