Online Child Safety: Law, Technology and Governance

by Joseph Savirimuthu

Overview

This work explores the growing convergence between youth culture and digital communication technologies and the corresponding challenges posed to policymakers, examining the current governance debate on online child safety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230241527
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/31/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

JOSEPH SAVIRIMUTHU is Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, UK. He is co-editor ofa special issue on 'Identity, Privacy and New Technologies' for the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Regulating Risks: Convergence, Technology and Social Policy Online Sexual Grooming of Children, Obscene Content and Peer Victimization: Legal and Investigatory Issues Trans-Border Challenges to Enforcing Online Child Safety Laws Online Child Safety: International Cooperation and Policymaking Online Child Safety, Civil Society and the Private Sector: Alternative Strategies The Child, Media Literacy and Policy Implications Concluding Thoughts: The Tethered Child Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'Online Child Safety: Law, Technology and Governance provides a timely, broad-ranging and well written examination of the key stakeholders, challenges , tensions and legal frameworks which characterise the governance issues associated with online child safety.' - Jo Bryce, COUNTER Project Coordinator & Director of Research Cyberspace Research Unit in the School of Psychology, University of Central Lanashire, UK

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