International Research

 Michael and Ilene Berson, USA

Associate Professor Michael Berson and Research Assistant Professor Ilene Berson, both at the University of South Florida, USA, assisted the ISG with its 'Girls on the Net' survey in 2001.  Both were presenters at the NetSafe Symposium in 2002 and will be presenting at the NetSafe II international conference in Auckland this July.

Michael's website at the University of South Florida has a number of interesting links and papers.

www.coedu.usf.edu/deptseced/faculty/socscied/mberson.htm

Michael and Ilene recently co-authored a paper on digital literacy.  We appreciate that they allowed us to post the paper on this website.

Berson, Ilene R., & Berson, Michael J. (2003). 'Digital Literacy for Effective Citizenship'. Social Education 67(3): pp. 164-167. April.

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Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., & Ferron, J.  (2002).  'Emerging Risks of
Violence in the Digital Age: Lessons for Educators from an Online Study of
Adolescent Girls in the United States'. Journal of School Violence 1(2): pp. 51-72. 

www.ncsu.edu/meridian/sum2002/cyberviolence

Berson, Michael J. (2000). 'The Computer Can't See You Blush'. Kappa Delta Pi Record: pp. 158-162. Summer

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Rachel O'Connell

Dr Rachel O'Connell is the Director of Research for the Cyberspace Research Unit of the University of Central Lancashire in Great Britain. 

Rachel was also a keynote speaker at the NetSafe II: Society, Safety & the Internet conference in 2003.  We hope to post more of Rachel's work here soon.

O'Connell, Rachel (2003). 'A Typology of Child Cybersexploitation and Online Grooming Practices.' Conference Paper, Netsafe Conference 2003, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Harry A. Valetk, USA

Harry is the Chief Legal Officer for Wiredsafety, Wiredpatrol and Wiredkids, a global Internet Help & safety group.  We appreciate his allowing NetSafe to link to a recent paper he wrote on privacy.

http://www.valetk.com/pdf/privacy2003.pdf