[ecrea] New book Towards A Better Internet For Children?

New Book from NORDICOM



Towards a Better Internet for Children? Policy Pillars, Players and 
Paradoxes

Editors: Brian O’Neill, Elisabeth Staksrud & Sharon McLaughlin

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2013, 335 p. ISBN 978-91-86523-72-5, 
Price € 31


Keeping children safe online has been the subject of intensive policy 
debate ever since the mid-1990s when the internet first became an 
important public communications medium. The European Union has been to 
the fore in promoting internet safety and through its Safer Internet 
Programme has supported multistakeholder initiatives with industry, law 
enforcement, education and civil society to create a safer internet 
environment. Now, with a new emphasis on not just a safer but also a 
better internet, policy makers have signalled a new phase in strategies 
to protect children online. Reviewing the development of internet safety 
policy over this period – against the background of better evidence 
about the reality of young people’s experiences and looking to its 
future are among the key themes of this book.

Contributors to this book, all members of the now 33-country EU Kids 
Online network, seek to add to a growing literature on policy matters 
regarding internet regulation and governance as the Internet enters a 
new phase of maturity with near universal access and use. European in 
scope but international in outlook, the chapters in this collection seek 
to raise critical debate on just how mainstream are policies to protect 
young people, promote their best interests online and empower them to 
avail of the full range of digital opportunities? Against a background 
of increased international tension and debate over whether the internet 
should be regulated at all, contributors adopt a somewhat different 
position and assess the forms, contexts and evidence in favour of action 
– regulatory and otherwise – needed to support safer and better outcomes 
for young people.

Further information on 
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/eng.php?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=395&me=13



Season’s greetings and best wishes for a New Year,



Ulla C.





Ulla Carlsson, Dr., Professor

Director

NORDICOM

University of Gothenburg

Box 713

SE 405 30 Göteborg

www.nordicom.gu.se







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