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Title:

Negotiating the Parent/Teen Divide Over Social Networking

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Organizer:
Karen Rayne, Adolescent Sexuality Today
Description:
Parents are often at odds with their teenagers being on social networking sites. Can these sites please parents and appeal to teens simultaneously? This panel brings parents, teens, and experts together to address this digital divide and offer suggestions on how social networking sites can build a workable bridge.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why should social networking sites care what parents think about them?
  2. How do parents really feel about social networking sites and why?
  3. Which sites seem more problematic to parents than others?
  4. What can social networking sites to do put parents at ease about their teenagers online?
  5. Do teenagers care whether their parents approve of their online activity?
  6. What kinds of negotiations do parents and teenagers make about these issues (sharing passwords, friending the parent, etc.)?
  7. Can negotiations between parents and teenagers about social networking cites happen while maintaining the teenagers’ privacy?
  8. Does gathering participants’ ages when they sign up for a site work?
  9. Is there any other way to ensure the ages of the participants?
  10. Do parents have a right to have access to their child's SN site?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Case Study, Online Relationships, Social Issues, User Experience
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Karen Rayne
on 19/8/09
This panel would include actual parents and teenagers - the people who can give direct information about how they approach negotiating social media within the family and how social networking sites can make that process easier (and thus the sites more accessible to teenagers).
Patrick Dyson
on 28/8/09
I attended a discussion led by Karen and we had a rocking good time. She goes right at topics and gets everyone to engage!
Karen Kreps
on 28/8/09
Karen Rayne is an extraordinary educator and this topic couldn't be more appropriate for SXSW.
Cecilia Henderson
on 28/8/09
My teenage daughter recently completed a sex ed course with Karen and we couldn't be happier. Prior to this class she was very uncomfortable brining issues of a sexual nature to me for disucssion. She is now able to spreak freely with me and our relationship is much closer. The class not only offered her the information she needed, but more importantly, it gave her the tools and confidence to make appropriate choices in her life. Karen would bring the same clarity and compassion to a panel of this nature. Here's to more parent/teen communication--bring it on!!!
Robert Heil
on 29/8/09
The good doctor knows her stuff. I hope she leads another panel.
Ruth Rinehart
on 31/8/09
This will be a very valuable panel!
Kris Gowen
on 31/8/09
I am looking forward to the opportunity to present on this very important topic. Young people are the pioneers of the online world -- we must work WITH them, not against them (or without them), to find out what they want and how to support their safety.
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on 7/11/09
Love it! Look forward to seeing this in the mix of options when I arrive in Austin!
MTS Converter
on 29/11/09
Looking forward to it. Great Panel.
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