A useful resource for 'body image', gender, role models and the media.

Read the article here

A short video outlining issues around young people, celebrities and body image.

Howard Rheingold has used Delicious to curate links to surveillance and our increasing loss of privacy.

The links are here

Creative Commons provides an easy to use framework for adults and young people to make their own resources available to others in addition to helping them recognise resources they can adapt and repurpose themselves.

More information here

Twitter can be a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, and keep abreast of what's going on in the world. However, as with all online platforms, there are a few risks - such as hackers, who attempt to take control of people's accounts in order to misuse them.

Read the article here.

Perhaps it it really is OK to always record the moments of our days with our devices..

'Ian MacKaye of Fugazi fame gave a talk at the Library of Congress last night and touted this now quite common argument,

I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise'

Read Nathan Jurgenson's thought provoking blog post here